Who here actually uses D?

[Peter Alexander]

On 2/01/11 2:01 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Caligo wrote:
>> I don't understand why so much time and effort as been spent, perhaps
>> wasted, on multiple compilers and standard libraries. I also don't
>> understand why Walter insists on having his own compiler when D has
>> finally been declared an open source project. LLVM and GCC are very
>> mature projects and they could have been used for the reference
>> implementation. If Walter was in charge of the GDC or LDC project,
>> then we would have had a better compiler than what we have today. That
>> way I think D as a new modern programming language could have been in
>> a much better position. You also don't need to pay people to fix bugs
>> or do whatever that is needed to be done so long as you have a healthy
>> and growing open source community. I don't think we have that yet, and
>> perhaps the fact that Walter comes from the closed-source proprietary
>> world is part of the reason.
>
> The problems D has had have rarely been the back end.

I don't use Windows personally, but OPTLINK seems to still be quite a 
major cause of pain, with the crashes (http://h3.gd/devlog/?p=31) and 
OMF format that no one uses.

Again, I don't experience this, I'm just going by what others have said. 
Seems to be a common complaint.