Biggest Issue with D - Definition and Versioning

[dolive]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 1/17/12 4:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 1/17/2012 2:07 AM, Gour wrote:
> >> My example was just meant to show what might be the result when one
> >> feels that developers are not behind their product in a sense that one
> >> 'cannot count on the project' which was supposed to be continuation on
> >> my "we always get the feedback it's not safe investment of our time&
> >> energy and it would be better to use something else, either C(++), Java,
> >> Scala, Python etc."
> >>
> >> So, I highly admire the work of all members within D community giving
> >> something valuable for free, but being interested in success of D, I
> >> wanted to share my experience I have when trying to advocate using of D
> >> for real (open-source) projects *today*.
> >>
> >> I'll try to be more sensitive next time...
> >
> > I'm not taking issue with sensitivity, just that one is *less* likely to
> > get responsive bug fixes from Major Software Vendor, and so dismissing D
> > for that reason is invalid.
> >
> > I've seen people say "D doesn't have feature X, so I'm going to use
> > language B." But B doesn't have feature X, either. Again, the reason
> > given is invalid.
> 
> This is often mentioned, so I, too, thought about it a fair amount. I 
> think it would be hasty to simplify that judgment.
> 
> I think the reasoning goes like this:
> 
> 1. D lacks feature X that is often needed during the use of language B, 
> which lacks it too.
> 
> 2. The person reasons they'll see advantage in switching to a language 
> if it did have X.
> 
> 3. D doesn't, so the proposition of making the effort to switch from B 
> is less appealing.
> 
> Similar lines of thinking may go about features that B has and D 
> doesn't, or about features that both B and D have but D implements them 
> poorly, or about promising differentiating features that D has that 
> don't work reliably.
> 
> 
> Andrei

Solve d1, d2 to compatibility issues , Let d1 be popular , it¡®s are the current balanced each side the best way to , can be quiet and wait for the maturity of d2 .

thank's all

dolive