Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

[Sean Reque]

Max Samukha Wrote:

> Ty Tower Wrote:
> 
> > This is a typical of a lot of what like to call themselves "The D Community"
> > They are more interested in attacking the messenger.
> > 
> > Torhu says as well that DBI should work with 1.029 etc etc but has he checked? Has Lars checked?  Obviously Bill checked and it didn't .
> > 
> >  If you aren't sure why post?
> > 
> 
> I checked out the D DBI trunk about two weeks ago. It didn't build out of the box but after a number of trivial fixes it did. It's been working pretty much as expected (with MySql backend, I haven't tried it with other backends yet). There was a bug or two like fetched resultsets being freed prematurely, but the bugs were trivial to fix as well. Currently I'm building a thin ORM layer on top of DDBI and I think it is turning out to be a fast and flexible solution suitable for my purposes.



Am I the only one who thinks software build bugs, no matter how trivial, are simply unacceptable? Just because it's free doesn't mean it doesn't have to work! I shouldn't have to dig through source code just to get something to compile, let alone run properly.