Is D still alive?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/28/11 3:25 PM, retard wrote:
> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:14:04 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I think as D matures
>> and hopefully gets more enterprise support, these problems will be
>> history.
>
> This is the classic chicken or the egg problem. I'm not trying to be
> unnecessarily mean. Enterprise support is something you desperately need.
> Consider dsource, wiki4d, d's bugzilla etc. It's amazing how much 3rd
> party money and effort affects the development. Luckily many things are
> also free nowadays such as github.
>
>>> I don't see any need to prove how well Haskell works. Even though it's
>>> a "avoid success at all costs" experimental research language. It just
>>> works. I mean to the extent that I'm willing to go with these silly
>>> test projects that try to prove something.
>>
>> The statements I made are not a property of D, they are a property of
>> the lack of backing/maturity.  I'm sure when Haskell was at the same
>> maturity stage as D, and if it had no financial backing/support
>> contracts, it would be just as much of a gamble.
>
> But Haskell developers have uninterruptedly received funding during the
> years.

That doesn't say much about anything. Some projects worked well with 
funding, some worked well with little or no initial funding.

>> You seem to think that D is inherently flawed because of D, but it's
>> simply too young for some tasks.  It's rapidly getting older, and I
>> think in a year or two it will be mature enough for most projects.
>
> I've heard this before. I've also heard the 64-bit port and many other
> things are done in a year/month or two. The fact is, you're overly
> optimistic and these are all bullshit. When I come back here in a year or
> two, I have full justification to laugh at your stupid claims.

I think if you do that I have full justification to send you back where 
you originally came from. Cut the crap for a change, will you. Thanks.


Andrei