Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:52:47 -0400, Matt <euroquigs at hotmail.com> wrote:

> It makes me so sad, though, that the language will never take off  
> because of one fatal flaw that plagues the widespread adoption of the  
> language.  It's a flaw that makes educated people move on because they  
> simply won't take the language seriously.  I daresay there have been  
> millions who were about to learn D and then found out this flaw,  
> unfortunately figured it was a beginner's language, and moved on to  
> another exciting new language.

[...]

> Hhhmph, so it's my fault now?  I shouldn't be using notepad, I should be  
> using YOUR editor which makes your faulty method work?  Oh sure, blame  
> me.  But I'm not the retard who said tabs are 8 characters, indentions  
> are 4 characters, and just mix 'em up and have fun!

I agree.  Something has to be done to capture the millions of serious  
non-beginner developers using notepad to write code.  Walter, make this  
priority #1.

-Steve