D is dead

[Ali]

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 06:34:01 UTC, nkm1 wrote:
> The only real problem with D is that it's a language designed 
> with
> GC in mind, yet there are numerous attempts to use it without 
> GC.
> Also, supporting GC-less programming gets in the way of 
> improving
> D's GC (which is pretty damn bad by modern standards).
> That's the only real technical problem.

I completely agree with this opinion

> For example, the "bug" above just means that D doesn't support 
> RAII
> (in the C++ sense). That's hardly a *fatal flaw*. Lots of 
> languages don't
> support RAII.

RAII is nowadays described as C++ nicest , more important and 
most powerful feature
D again, missed the opportunity on that one

Between Go, Rust, Ocaml, native C# and Scala ...
D needs a more serious and ambitious roadmap

The pragmatic approach, described in the main blog post, is not 
good enough, for a language that have a small community like D