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

[RhyS]

On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 18:18:04 UTC, drug wrote:
> It's rather funny to see how one man who forced to program in 
> programming language he doesn't like can triggers comments from 
> lurkers that they don't like D too. No offense.
> D is in great form and is getting much better and better and 
> I'd like to ask D community to continue their good work and 
> make D great again.

Most people lurking here are people that WANT to use D but are 
offset by the issues. D is not bad as a language but it has 
issue. Their are issues at every step in the D eco system and 
each of those create a barrier.

Its those same issues that never seem to get solved and are 
secondary citizens compared to adding more "future" features or 
trying to Up-one C++...

Its not BetterC or static if or whatever new feature of the 
month, that brings in new people. You can advertise D as much as 
you want, but when people download D and very few people stay, is 
that not a hint...

The fact that only recently the D Poll pointed out that most 
people are using VSC and not VS. I am like "what, you only figure 
that out now". Given the mass popularity of VSC... That alone 
tells you how much the mindset of D is stuck in a specific eco 
space.