Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 06:25:55 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 16:44:23 UTC, Yura wrote:
>> 4) The C language is well tested and rock solid stable.
>
> loooooool.

ah, sorry, let me explain myself. i hit ALOT of gcc bugs in my 
life. and i never fixed any of them myself, 'cause gcc is very 
huge, and i don't feel that it worth it. even with bugs that 
blocked my work i used workarounds and hand-written asm.

i hit some bugs in D too. curiously, it comparable with gcc in 
numbers (maybe this tells us something, and maybe it is just a 
coincidence). some of them i was able not only report, but fix. 
usually, official fix comes later, and was better than mine hacky 
patch, but hey... DMD compiler is less complex than gcc, *alot* 
less complex.

now, why i loled: i thinked about what you wrote, and found that 
gcc bugs blocks my work/pet projects more often than dmd bugs. it 
may sounds strange, but dmd bug is usually either fixed fast 
enough (and building new dmd+druntime+phobos from sources takes 
less than two minutes on my PC), or i know a workaround.

contrary to that, even if gcc bug was fixed fast (and usually 
they don't), rebuilding gcc takes 20‒30 minutes. and most of the 
time i can't even understand what fix does, due to huge and 
unknown codebase.

so no, C languange is not "rock solid stable". it just has alot 
less features, and if you will use the same feature set in DMD, 
you will hardly hit a bug too.