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[l8night]

hi,
thank you all for your answers. i think your are right with “look for the severity of bugs”. for my superiors however the thing is different. they just see a huge amount of bugs, missing gui libraries, missing database libraries and nothing close to anything that m$ offers in the way of development. than there are 2 libraries, one with no collections and no way they seem to come together. There is no advertising (such as go language) and seemingly slow updates (bug fixes).
and for me - shit if this doesn’t change somehow to the better, i end up doing the next tool/project in delphi instead of D2.
and that sucks, since i at least got them to think about D.


dsimcha Wrote:

> == Quote from BCS (none at anon.com)'s article
> > Hello l8night,
> > > Too many bugs - no way my superiors allow some program with that bug
> > > list and the open date for version 2. worst is the slow bugfixes.
> > >
> > Check me on this but there may be more know bugs in things like FireFox then
> > in DMD. The length of the bug list in and of its self say almost nothing
> > about a program. (OTOH it makes a handy metric for people who don't know
> > that.)
> > To answer your original question; look at the change log to get an idea about
> > how fast versions come out. "Within a month or so" would be a good guess
> > for minor versions. If your talking about V3, expect a few years.
> 
> What's really important is how many *severe* bugs there are, i.e. bugs that really
> have a major effect on the usability of the language.  There are a few features,
> such as array ops and alias this, where DMD is buggy enough that these features
> are practically useless.  On the other hand, I don't get too mad about this
> because these are features that most other languages just plain don't have, and
> the situation is continually and rapidly improving (thanks to Walter and Don).
> Even if the *total* bug count is going up, IMHO the *severe* bug count is going down.