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

[rikki cattermole]

On 27/08/2018 4:09 AM, lurker wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 14:17:33 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 14:00:56 UTC, nkm1 wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> What did I expect? Better: What do I expect now. I've been using D for 
>> years now. I think it's time for D to offer users the same stability 
>> as other languages do. Simple as.
> 
> lurking around this board for a long time and gave up on d2 along time 
> ago. it is to scripty. i can not convince anybody at work to use it even 
> for small things under windows. some tried it and they say it is to 
> buggy, misses windows essentials and there seems to be no chance of 
> betterment via management or the compiler enthusiasts that rather 
> implement any fancy fart instead of getting the compiler stable, bug 
> free and usable.
> it seems like this is a language experiment, unusable for serious 
> development.
> i just downloaded current beta 2 and visual D. installs ok, no detection 
> of visual studio or any of the associated paths. visual D installed ok, 
> but a click on menu options killed visual studio.
> i uninstalled successfully - hallelujah.
> so i lurk around for an other year an see if D experiment is still 
> around and/or usable.

Both VisualD and dmd should work out of the box with MSVC and Visual 
Studio. In the last year I have not seen any reports of either failing 
out-right without something wrong with the users environment making it 
problematic.

So please report any issues you're having. Because they are not regular 
user experience.