D2 is really that stable as it is claimed to be?

Maxim Fomin maxim at maxim-fomin.ru
Sat Sep 21 11:03:17 PDT 2013


On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 17:41:38 UTC, Zhouxuan wrote:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11086
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11010
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10970
>
> I've found and reported these bugs after about merely 100 LOCs 
> written down.
> Should I continue?
>
> Despite these tiny issues, I see a lot of people complain about 
> container, GC etc, but I can't found any offical reply, also no 
> roadmap at all.

Yes, it is unstable and still is advertized as being so. There 
are significant misfunctioning features which would break code 
when are fixed, let alone each release breaks something minor. 
For example, I was pissed off two days ago when git-head dmd 
rejected to compile large code base due to some 'enum overflow' 
error. Being watching bugzilla and github for two years, that 
change was neither expected nor clear for me. Now I see, that two 
years ago when I abandoned not reach for features but fully 
stable lang, I was undervaluing neccessity of a lang to be a 
stable.


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