Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

default0 via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 6 23:32:43 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 06:30:05 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 06:22:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/6/2016 10:38 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> The D ecosystem is a large pile of incomplete features, with 
>>> more added all the
>>> time.
>>
>> Even with only array bounds checking, D is safer than C++.
>
> +inf. this feature alone made me much more productive, and took 
> away alot of pain. (dreaming) if only RangeError could show 
> invalid index too...

^ Thats my biggest beef with it, too. Error messages should 
contain as much detail as is reasonable for the operation. As an 
aside, I remember Adam did a PR/Bug submission or something and 
it was argued that it would add too much bloat(??)

Heres to hoping we get that at some point.


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