Community Rant

[Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d]

> But lets be honest. If I was just interested to learn about 
> this "modern system programming language" that is C++ done 
> right, I would dismiss D very quickly. We need to get together 
> as a community and rethink your priorities, because with 
> problems like this we're making it very hard for newcomers to 
> trust in this very poorly adapted language.
>
> Programming tools used by day to day programmers should be a 
> priority. Because everyone expects valgrind to work.
>
> The standard library should be a priority. It's far from 
> complete (hopefully my company will contribute in this respect 
> in the near future).
>
> The DUB package repository is horrible! More often than not, 
> the packages are so poorly written I end up just writing my own 
> implementation. Adding the ability to "rate" packages would go 
> a long way in improving the situation.
>
> I understand hacking the frontend is way more interesting to 
> most of the community. But if we don't find the time to improve 
> on our visibility and language maturity, D will never get the 
> attention it deserves.

+1