The Next Big Language

[Sean Kelly]

Denis Koroskin Wrote:
> 
> We've just tried programming with a friend in pair in D, and after  
> spending about an hour trying to figure out the program misbehavior we  
> understood it was a dmd codegen bug (I'll submit a report shortly). He was  
> very angry and said "After so many years being in development this is  
> still a b.s. I will never touch this language again". I had nothing to say  
> other than I'll submit a bug-report and it will hopefully get fixed.

Clearly, your friend never used VC++6.  It was the buggiest piece of software I've ever used, and yet I never once heard someone say they were giving up on C++ because of it.  Sounds to me like he was just looking for a reason to not give D a fair shake.