my demise

[clayasaurus]

Richard Koch wrote:
> tried to get d as the language of choice (daring) for a card projrct. it 
> took almost 4 month with my ordering, threatening and ...
> 
> things died because of
> 
> 1.) no gui lib with builder
> 2.) any other language had usable libs, extensions and standard algos
> 3.) competing standard libraries
> 4.) no foreseeable releases (such as 1.0)
> 
> most horrifying was the lack of an integrated editor debugger thingy.
> 
> as a user i think it is becoming at least deterring
> 
> 
> richard
> 
> 
> ps
> 
> even so i forced people for a long time, we are doing it noe in c# (kind 
>   of kills me)

For 3), what's so bad about competition that stops you from doing work 
with D?

For 4) True enough, although it feels like that D 1.0 is right around 
the corner.