Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Dejan Lekic]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 13:04:28 UTC, Chris wrote:
> I've been working with Java recently and although it is not an 
> exciting language, it does the job and it does it well. You can 
> rely on it to get the job done - and get it done fast. And you 
> know that your code will still work next week, month or in 5 
> years. In everyday programming life you don't care about the 
> latest fancy features. Imo, D should slow down, take inventory, 
> do some spring cleaning and work on useful libraries and a 
> sound ecosystem. I don't care what color the bike shed is as 
> long as there are bikes in there that actually work.
>
> Atm, I'm not considering D for any important and or big 
> projects.

There is exactly where I am - I am using Java (and more recently 
Python) for serious stuff.

I am however in favour of D moving fast (that is why many Java 
programmers moved to Kotlin/Scala!). The only problem with D is 
that there should be stable release of D2 (two times a year, like 
Fedora for an example), and this stable release gets only 
security updates and bug-fixes!

I know this would require someone to maintain all this (it is a 
full-time job!)...