Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 23:08:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> https://gist.github.com/ximion/77dda83a9926f892c9a4fa0074d6bf2b

Aren't requirements for packaging and recent versions mutually 
exclusive? The packaged version will undergo version freeze and 
will be older than the recent version no matter what you package.

Unittest checks are not necessarily the same as asserts in the 
application code. Unittest checks throwing exceptions of a 
different type than exceptions from the application code are 
useful for precise analysis of exceptions. Unittests also need 
indication of unconditional failure and inconclusive tests. 
Builtin unittests just give a run to the code, they shouldn't be 
written in such a way that you can't figure out what's going on 
there.

Confusing claim that he can't use dmd given that he says he uses 
it.