Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 6 22:21:28 PDT 2016


On 6/6/2016 5:19 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> This isn't a small problem, don't dismiss it quite that quickly.  Safety as a
> usable subset of D is still pretty non-existent and yet is used as a selling
> point.

I use it regularly.

> The language still has holes -- I don't have bug report numbers, but
> others have reported them in the past, some closed some not.  At the library
> level things are far worse.  I've yet to be able to write any interesting apps
> with an @safe main.

It's harder to make your program compile with @safe. That is not a bug in the 
language.



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