D popularity

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/21/2013 07:09 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 17:56:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 05:32:12PM +0100, monarch_dodra 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.
>>
>> Oh? What's so unreliable about delegates? I find that they work quite
>> well in general.
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>> T
>
> I've stayed away from them mostly, so I may be unfair, but I'm mostly
> thinking about delegates that reference external data via context pointers.
>
> Come to think about it, everything I dislike about about D always boils
> down to "context pointer". That thing is so scary unsafe, and can so
> easily back fire on you :(
>
> I don't have the hindsight yet to be allowed to declare it was a
> terrible idea, but that's what I'm thinking right now.
>
> Heck, I'm kind of wishing we had a compiler switch to ban and/or warn on
> such usage. Or at least, make them explicit opt-ins for crying out loud.

That does not answer the question.