D needs to get its shit together!

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 03:53:18 UTC, Mike B Johnson wrote:
> Seriously! D is starting to gain momentum and if things are not 
> stabilized it's going to slow D down.
>
> [...]

All decent ideas- except for the bit about D1, as it has been 
deprecated- but obviously nobody has been willing to work on 
adding such fit and finish.  If you believe someone should 
volunteer their time to work on this, the obvious question is why 
don't you do it?  If you think there is a market for paid support 
that includes such polish, you could charge for it.

On the other hand, maybe D is not meant for the kind of user who 
needs such an easy path.  What does it matter if you set D up 
really easily and then can't grasp such a sprawling, lower-level 
language?  Perhaps _this_ is the right packaging for D right now, 
to keep away the kinds of casual users who would not be suited 
for D.

I don't have a strong opinion on that, just making an 
observation.  It works well for me, and having a long history of 
using OSS projects that are _much_ worse to set up, I can't 
complain. :)