Linux Agora D thread

[Walter Bright]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Oh, I agree that he's wrong, and I agree that D2 is making serious progress, but 
> he's got enough of his facts right that I don't think that he can be convinced 
> by correcting what he's saying. I see value in correcting people if they 
> misunderstand the situation, but trying to convince someone whose opinion differs 
> when they have their facts more or less straight is likely to just result in 
> heated arguments.
> 
> The fact that D2 is not 100% stable is, of course, not something that we want, 
> but I do agree that it's completely understandable why D is the way it is at the 
> moment and that it's not unreasonable for it to be that way. D is improving and 
> it will eventually reach the same level of stability that modern C++ compilers 
> enjoy. However, it's also pretty much a given that many people won't want to use 
> D until it has a level of stability comparable with the compilers that they use 
> for more mature languages. But there's nothing that we can do about that except 
> continue to improve D until it reachs that point. And the more stable it 
> becomes, the easier it will become to get people to try it and stick with it.

I agree there are plenty of reasons to not use D, but also a lot more reasons to 
use it.