Why D is not popular enough?

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 02:04:53PM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 08/12/2016 01:21 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > On 8/12/16 1:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > 
> > > Honestly, I don't think that shared is broken.
> > 
> > Yes. It is broken.
> > 
> > shared int x;
> > ++x; // error, must use atomicOp.
> > x = x + 1; // OK(!)
> 
> How is this broken and how should it behave? -- Andrei

?!

Isn't it obvious that assigning to a shared int must require atomicOp or
a cast? `x = x + 1;` clearly has a race condition otherwise.


T

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