I'd just like to say thanks for D

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, March 10, 2013 13:56:54 Maxim Fomin wrote:
> I found this is interesting to hear that somebody with excellent
> D project knowledge is happy with the language taking into
> accounts bugs, non-completed features, limited third library
> support and poor tool chain.

Of course I am. Anyone working on D as much as I have would have to at least 
feel that D has very high potential if not that it's already fantastic, or 
they wouldn't spend that much time on it, and as much as there still is to 
sort out, we've come a long way. On the whole, D is very pleasant to work 
with. And the fact that I used to deal with many more problems in my D 
programs on a regular basis makes it seem that much better, whereas a newbie 
is more likely to be frustrated with the shortcomings, since they have nothing 
to compare it to. I would think that it's the people who are heavily into D 
who would be most happy with it. If anything, we run the risk of not giving 
its shortcomings enough weight, because we're used to them. But the problems 
that we have _are_ being addressed, even if it's not always as quickly as we'd 
like.

> In my experience there was decision to prefer another language
> over D for reason of lacking libraries (finance area) - I would
> have to implement great of functionality from scratch.

Well, someone has to do it, or it'll never happen. But D's ease in calling C 
and C++ code definitely helps reduce that problem, and more libraries will 
appear over time.

- Jonathan M Davis