Is D right for me?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:29:03 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 10/5/10 9:37 CDT, Gour D. wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:01:41 +0200
>>>>>>>> "Don" == Don<nospam at nospam.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Don>  I would estimate the truck factor as between 2.0 and 2.5. Two
>> Don>  years ago, the truck factor was 1.0, but not any more.
>>
>> Nice, nice...Still SO people say: "Neither Haskell nor D is popular
>> enough for it to be at all likely that you will ever attract a single
>> other developer to your project..." :-)
>
> If developer attraction is a concern, you're likely better off with D.  
> Programmers who have used at least one Algol-like language (C, C++,  
> Java, C#) will have no problem feeling comfortable in D. With Haskell  
> you'd need to stick with "the choir".
>
>> If just QtD hadn't been suspended...
>
> I agree that's a bummer. I suggest you write the developers and ask what  
> would revive their interest. The perspective of a solid client is bound  
> to be noticeable.
>
>
> Andrei

I've heard from one of the developers that one of the most frustrating  
parts was inability of having struct default ctors  
(http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3852), and dtors that  
aren't called (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3516). I also  
know they also had *huge* issues with optlink  
(http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2436 and many others), but  
those hopefully got fixed.

I'll try to talk eldar into sharing his development experience and the  
issues they came across.

Until then you may be interested in reading these posts:

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=103453
http://h3.gd/devlog/?p=22 - increasingly more people are unsatisfied with  
D2 and talking about a fork so I wouldn't be surprised to see one sooner  
or later (!)