Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 05:38:09 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
> I've fixed some of the issues in a couple bursts of activity 
> over the last several years, and filed a bunch more bugs, but 
> the specifics aren't the point I'm raising here, though your 
> trimming of the thread dropped that part of the context.  You 
> dismissed complaints of the incompleteness of safety as the 
> whining of non-users.  I'm a user.  I was a much more frequent 
> user until I got tired of the sheer number of only partially 
> complete nature of so much of the language + core library.  Yes 
> they're separate, no that's not relevant to the majority of 
> users.  Yes, I can and have contributed to the fixes, but it's 
> clearly (just based on commit history) not a priority to many 
> people.

Same here....

>
> The D ecosystem is a large pile of incomplete features, with 
> more added all the time.

I'm not using D anymore, at least not for new production 
projects, exactly for that reason. I don't feel confident any 
more on the future of the language exactly for that reason.

/Paolo