Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Dave via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 14:00:29 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 13:53:13 UTC, BigDog wrote:
>> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 09:12:19 UTC, Ethan Watson wrote:
>>> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 08:00:30 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>
>>> D is still ahead of the pack in terms of features.
>>
>> I always think of Jurassic Park, when the D community talks of 
>> features. Specifically Jeff Goldblum's line of "Your scientist 
>> were so concerned if they could, they didn't stop to think if 
>> they should". D has pretty much most of the features present 
>> in every programming language. I'm not sure if that is a 
>> positive or negative personally.
>
>
> How about doing a collaborative poll and giving Andrei and 
> Walter some feedback (backed with "some" number)?
> This time I found a platform that allows everyone to add new 
> answers and select from the existing ones:
>
> http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=7f7ebc16c280d0c3c
>
> Happy voting!
>
> Disclaimer: I am _not_ affiliated with this website by any 
> means.

One thing I mentioned in another post is the documentation is 
lacking...particularly parts don't work and the examples are 
rather chaotic.

As I dig into the language further (for some reason I haven't 
determined why yet) I also find that the standard library is has 
big giant holes. Particularly in the graphics department, which 
pretty much was a deal killer for my project I was gonna try 
using D with. But also it seems to be missing formal data 
structures that it should have. Deques, Queues, Stacks, etc. Also 
no formal official http support is also a bummer...

I would dismiss this as "growing pains for a new language" then 
you find out D is almost 20 years old O.o