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

[Walter Bright]

On 8/27/2018 2:14 AM, Chris wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 22:44:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Because nobody thought about that issue before. A lot of things only become 
>> apparent in hindsight.
> QED. With this approach you do more harm than good. I have a bad feeling about 
> the way things are going atm.

I can quote you a loooong list of problems that are obvious only in hindsight, 
by world leading development teams.

Start by watching the documentary series "Aviation Disasters", look at 
Challenger, Deepwater Horizon, Fukushima, Apollo 1, Apollo 13, the World Trade 
Centers, etc. Of course, there are a number of them in C, C++, Java, Javascript, 
basically every language I've worked with.

I'll guarantee every non-trivial project you've worked on has problems that are 
obvious only in hindsight, too. If you wait till it's perfect, you'll never 
ship, and yet it'll *still* have problems.

I'm not making excuses for mistakes - just don't have unworkable requirements.

The end of the day is, does D get the job done for you better than other 
languages? That's a decision only you can make.