D popularity

[monarch_dodra]

On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 16:14:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

The only thing holding me back from D is that it is unreliable. 
I'm not just talking about bugs in Phobos (which can easilly 
found and/or fixed).

I'm talking about all the unreliable voldemort structs, the 
context pointers, the delegates, the destructor sequences, memory 
management and whatnot.

I can see that these issues are being fixed and worked on, but 
today, I would NEVER even dream of using D in a professional 
project.

The only way for that to work would be to use a "restricted D": 
No non-static structs, no allocating delegates etc. It's a hard 
sell to management.

I use it at work to quickly deploy helper scripts, because it is 
so easy, and I know what I'm doing, but it stops there. It HAS to 
stop there :( ...