Does D suck?

[GirlProgrammer]

Mike Farnsworth wrote:
> GirlProgrammer Wrote:
>
>> BCS wrote:
>>> Hello GirlProgrammer,
>>>
>>>> If D doesn't suck, and is better than C++ why am I not using it?
>>>> Indeed, why isn't hardly anyone using it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Because qunatity of D libraries sucks and because the D tool chains
>>> suck and because the D infrastructure sucks and because all the rest
>>> of the stuff that gets good after you've been a popular language for
>>> a decade or so still sucks.
>>>
>>> <jokeingly type="86%">We're working on it, OK!?!?</jokeingly>
>>
>> On the joking html part, and it's been how many YEARS now? Circa
>> 1996?
>
> Not to feed the troll or anything, but a little datapoint for the
> rest of you: my father created the first large-scale commercial
> software for factory/fab simulation and scheduling starting in, oh,
> 1981, and it is *STILL* profitable and relevant.
>
> Some things take time.  Patience, padawan.  The software industry
> moves fast, but sometimes it shouldn't.  This ain't a popularity
> contest or a political campaign.  It's a tool in the toolbox.

"And Moses led the people into the desolation of the wilderness, where 
they dwindled for 40 years".

Seems like "D" has happened before!