Right now, what's the most important for the success and adoption of D?

Max Samukha samukha at voliacable.com.removethis
Fri Sep 28 07:03:09 PDT 2007


On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:30:08 +0100, Bruno Medeiros
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:

>I wanted to probe the D community of the following issue:
>
>Right now, what would the most important thing for the success and 
>adoption of D? In other words, if one had to use D to develop a medium 
>or large scale software, what would be the most important things to 
>have, that we currently don't have (or aren't good enough)?
>(I'm not talking only about language features, in case you didn't get that)
>
>I ask this on the onset of seeing several people commenting on how they 
>can't wait until we have AST macros, or how the feature X would be 
>awesome to have, while me, now that I actually started to some coding in 
>D (even if in a very small project), would actually rate those a much 
>lower priority versus other things I'd like to have in the D ecosphere. 
>  I'll do some more comments on this but first I'd like to hear about 
>other people's opinions.

1. More bugfixes in D 1.0. I would be happy to call it stable some
day.
2. The problem with RAII (destructors are useless:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/learn/destructors_7525.html
and other threads)
3. GUI



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