Who here actually uses D?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 01 January 2011 14:58:57 Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I use it every day, full time, and have for almost a year now,
> and did for several years before that in hobby time.
> 
> My web app for work is about 20,000 lines. My (still incomplete)
> personal D gui project is ~10,000 lines. I've written about another
> 12,000 lines of shared library code, and done some hobby games,
> the three largest ones being 8000, 3000, and 2000 lines.
> 
> The games are written in D1, everything else is D2. These counts
> come by doing wc *.d in the project directories, so they'd include
> empty lines; it's an over-count surely.
> 
> 
> But nevertheless, it's quite a bit of D code! And I find the bugs
> people complain about to be incredibly rare; I've hit two or three
> really annoying ones over the years, but that's not too bad. (one
> is trivial to work around, one was only on Windows and was fixed
> last year, and the third sticks around... regular usage of
> opDispatch and opCall is good. Getting fancy and mixing it with
> other stuff isn't quite ideal yet. But it's still usable. And hell
> good but not perfect opDispatch still beats no opDispatch!)

I think that the fact that you've run into so few major bugs is very telling of 
which D2 features you use. As was discussed in another thread, you're fairly 
conservative in the D2-specific stuff that you use. Others of us who use D2-
specific stuff quite heavily run into serious bugs much more frequently. 
Personally, I use stuff like const, pure, and contracts heavily, and when you do 
that, you run into problems fairly quickly.

- Jonathan M Davis