D as a betterC a game changer ?

[codephantom]

On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 21:40:29 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
> This is not true. I was at DConf one year (can't remember 
> which) and I watched the representative of one of D's larger 
> corporate users do everything but actually get on his knees and 
> beg Walter to make a breaking change. IIRC they demonstrated 
> their work around for the missing change a couple of DConf's 
> later.
>

Are you referring to this: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DinkkD6Pt34

We don't all need to be that "ruthless with memory efficiency" ( 
e.g.I have 24GB of memory on my desktop pc! GC kicks in at 
what...20MB??)

But some really good points were made nonetheless, and I enjoyed 
the perspective he offered.

> Let's fix the crap we have now. It'll take a while, it's not 
> sexy, and it certainly won't make headlines on HN or Reddit. 
> But it will have the effect of combating the biggest negative 
> that D has to adoption. The perception of instability.

A little overstated perhaps.. I certainly would not be using the 
word 'crap' or 'instability' describe the current state of D.

But D could benefit from some focused tender love, and care ;-)