Poll: Primary D version

[Robert Clipsham]

On 20/05/10 07:52, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I'm interested in trying to gauge the current state of D version usage, so
> I've set up a poll:
>
> http://micropoll.com/t/KEFfsZBH5F
>
> I apologize for using MicroPoll (and all its manditory-JavaScript-ness). I
> personally hate MicroPoll but everything else I've seen is even worse and I
> don't have time to make a custom one.

I put my vote with D1 & 2, although truthfully I've moved back to D1 for 
the most part. I found D2 almost impossible to use, for a few reasons:

  - Safe D was impossible to use due to phobos not supporting this 
(although this seems to be close to a fix)
  - Interfacing to C libraries is now overly complex thanks to const 
correctness. After updating all the function signatures I found phobos 
was completely lacking the functions to convert between C and D strings 
of varying constness or with different encodings (char/wchar/dchar).. I 
ended up writing my own functions
  - to!() didn't work in most cases where I tried to use it, I ended up 
writing my own conversion functions
  - Various bugs I encountered which have already been reported (I 
forget which ones).
  - Lack of an x86_64 compiler. I spent far too long messing around 
setting up a multilib system, and ended up making a chroot for dmd. This 
is far too much effort/messing around, and should I ever feel there's a 
use for my apps outside of localhost people will wonder why they don't 
support x86_64 natively (I believe this will change after D2 from 
various comments from Walter).
  - Lack of containers in phobos, although dcollections may have solved 
this now, I haven't had chance to look

There were some other reasons I've forgotten, but until at least some of 
these are fixed I'll stick to D1/Tango... I hope I can move back to D2 
at some point in the future once it's stabilized a bit more.