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

[Radu]

On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 22:55:05 UTC, RhyS wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 12:16:06 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
> wrote:
>> And yet some of the heaviest users of D have said in public 
>> 'please break our code".  I wonder why that could be.
>
> My answer to that is simply:
>
> Break stuff so it becomes STABLE! Remove junk and clutter.
> Do NOT break stuff to add more unneeded features inside a 
> rotten carcass.
>
> Be honest, how many people will use BetterC in production! Not 
> as some homework or sided projects with a few dozen lines. Very 
> few and that is the issue ... That is development time that can 
> have gone into documentation, bug fixes...

I think you need to look at Dlang as what it is - still WIP and 
mostly *community driven*.

I got used to the occasional breaking or regression, and the best 
I can advise is to try to report or fix them if you can. There 
are still lots of things to be removed/added/or fixed in the 
language and the standard libraries - breakage will appear, and 
looks that most users expect some kind of breakage.

As for DasBetterC, you might underestimate the potential it has 
for migrating old C code fully of partially to D, or the nice 
thing that it enabled Webassembly targeting.
But for me it is important in the way that it acted as a catalyst 
for people to look at the issues Dlang and Druntime had, and made 
them better by making them more modular. This is a win for Dlang 
in the long run, maybe the betterC flag will be removed at some 
point because the compiler and runtime will be smart enough to 
enable pay-as-you-go intrinsically.