Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 17:04:19 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> How about no headers or macros?

Textual include files are annoying and C++ needs more symbolic 
modules, but not having the ability to use namespaces is annoying 
too and D's take on name resolution can break code.

No need to use macros in C++10, but it comes in handy in 
debugging and unit testing, actually. So, I am bit torn on that.

So those are just break-even issues, neither better or worse. 
Plusses and minuses in both camps.

> Dub?

Not a language feature, I avoid to use such features if I can. I 
really hate being forced to use it with node.js. I prefer 
downloading directly from github and put specific versions of 
libraries in my own projects. I don't use a package manager with 
Python either. Just download libraries, remove unneeded stuff and 
dump it into my project directory.

> Chaining range operations with ufcs?

I don't like how UFCS makes code less maintainable, and was happy 
to learn that C++17 most likely won't add it.

I only use generators for testing, not for production. In general 
I end up using explicit easy to read inner-loops as they are 
easier for step-debugging and easier to optimize. The time it 
takes to write the code is less costly than the time it takes to 
understand what is going on in a debugger.

I use generators in high level REPL languages like Python though.