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

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/01/2018 07:12 AM, Chris wrote:
> 
> Hope is usually the last thing to die. But one has to be wise enough to 
> see that sometimes there is nothing one can do. As things are now, for 
> me personally D is no longer an option, because of simple basic things, 
> like autodecode, a flaw that will be there forever, poor support for 
> industry technologies (Android, iOS)

Much as I hate to agree, that IS one thing where I'm actually in the 
same boat:

My primary current paid project centers around converting some legacy 
Flash stuff to...well, to NOT Flash obviously. I *want* to use D for 
this very badly. But I'm not. I'm using Unity3D because:

1. For our use right now: It has ready-to-go out-of-the-box WebAsm 
support (or is it asm.js? Whatever...I can't keep up with the 
neverending torrent of rubble-bouncing from the web client world.)

2. For our use later: It has ready-to-go out-of-the-box iOS/Android 
support (along with just about any other platform we could ever possibly 
hope to care about).

3. It has all the robust multimedia functionality we need ready-to-go on 
all platforms (actually, its capabilities are totally overkill for us, 
but that's not a bad problem to have).

4. C# isn't completely totally horrible.

I will be migrating the server back-end to D, but I *really* wish I 
could be doing the client-side in D too, even if that meant having to 
build an entire 2D engine off nothing more than SDL. Unfortunately, I 
just don't feel I can trust the D experience to be robust enough on 
those platforms right now, and I honestly have no idea when or even if 
it will get there (Maybe I'm wrong on that. I hope I am. But that IS my 
impression even as the HUUUGE D fan I am.)