D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 03:50:44 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
wrote:

> To sum it up: fatal flaws + no path to fixing + no push from 
> the community = inevitable eventual death.
>
> With great regrets,
> Shachar

I want to jump in for the sake of someone from the outside coming 
in and reading this to say that I disagree. I don't know a whole 
lot about the type of development you're doing, because that's 
not my line of work, and you obviously know that area well. 
However, for scripting tasks (as Dicebot mentioned) D is great. 
It is also great for real but smaller projects (5,000-20,000 
lines). I don't think there's a better choice right now for data 
science/scientific programming, where you have many small jobs 
going on repeatedly, and those are large and growing areas.

Weka is an awesome project, but I don't know that most people 
considering D should use your experience as the basis of their 
decision. At least in my areas, I expect considerable growth in 
the usage of D over the next 10 years. Maybe it won't see much 
traction as a C++ replacement for large projects like Weka.