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

[Chris]

On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 23:46:54 UTC, Radu wrote:

>
> 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.
>

This is not good enough. Yes, D users expect "some kind of 
breakage" - all the time, and this is exactly the problem. In D 
people have put up with breakages for too long believing things 
will improve in the long run, and because of this it is assumed 
that users will put up with it forever and ever and ever. Has it 
never occurred to anyone that many users have got sick and tired 
of this? I mean, there are other languages out there and you can 
get things done in no time and your program will still compile 
next week. I say it again, D has come a long way and things were 
looking good, but it's going nowhere. Look at this thread. Very 
intelligent people, top programmers, top engineers are arguing 
over details, while users (of D) who are programming for other 
users are trying to say "Stop!".

There's a huge difference between developing D and developing 
_in_ D.