D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

[Laurent Tréguier]

On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 09:40:23 UTC, Ecstatic Coder 
wrote:
> But it seems that the latest version of "std.file.copy" now 
> completely ignores the "PreserveAttributes.no" argument on 
> Windows, which made recent Windows builds of Resync fail on 
> read-only files.
>
> Very typical...
>
> While D remains my favorite file scripting language, I must 
> admit that this is quite disappointing for such an old 
> language, compared to similar languages like Crystal.

Windows can simply be a pain to work with though. Look at Crystal 
itself, it doesn't support Windows natively as far as I know, so 
of course you won't have Windows-specific bugs in Crystal...