What are the worst parts of D?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 25 07:01:13 PDT 2014


On 9/25/14, 5:41 AM, Wyatt wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 11:30:52 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 03:55:22 UTC, Walter Bright
>> wrote:
>>> I make similar statements all the time. It doesn't result in action
>>> on anyone's part. I don't tell people what to do - they work on
>>> aspects of D that interest them.
>>>
>>> Even people who ask me what to work on never follow my suggestions.
>>> They work on whatever floats their boat. It's my biggest challenge
>>> working on free software :-)
>>
>> One recurring theme appears to be people waiting on you to decide
>> on whether an idea is agreeable in principle before implementing
>> it.  It would help if you put up a list on the wiki of such
>> features, either that you want or that you agree with others
>> would be good to have, ie some sort of feature wish list that's
>> pre-approved by you and Andrei.
>>
> There is at least this bugzilla tag:
> https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=preapproved&list_id=110116
>
> ....But its an awful short list!  Clear direction has been a common
> request for a while.

I'll make a pass, also please post here specific issues you need to be 
looked at.

Andrei




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