Feq questions about the D language

Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 13:00:05 PDT 2012


On 11-03-2012 19:44, Caligo wrote:
> D is not ready for anything.  At the very best, It's in alpha.  Don't
> let others make you think otherwise.
>
> DMD is one of the buggiest compilers out there.  If you are a
> non-DMD/Phobos developer and think that D is ready for any kind of
> work then you must be high on dope.
>
> If you want to learn a new programming language and experience D, then
> go for it.  The language itself is very enjoyable, specially if you
> are coming from C/C++/Java.  However, anything more than a 1K LOC is
> going to get you in trouble, specially if you decide to use one of the
> _nice_ features of the language.

False. MCI is 20k+ lines. We have around 4 workarounds for DMD bugs in 
the source. That is all.

>
> Yes, things are improving rapidly, but I would say it's going take at
> least another year before DMD is stable.

-- 
- Alex


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