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

[Walter Bright]

On 9/1/2018 4:12 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) and the constant "threat" of code breakage. The D language developers don't 
> seem to understand the importance of these trivial matters. I'm not just 
> opinionating, by now I have no other _choice_ but to look for alternatives - and 
> I do feel a little bit sad.

Autodecode - I've suffered under that, too. The solution was fairly simple. 
Append .byCodeUnit to strings that would otherwise autodecode. Annoying, but 
hardly a showstopper.

Android, iOS - Contribute to help make it better.

Breakage - I've dealt with this, too. The language changes have been usually 
just some minor edits. The more serious problems were the removal of some Phobos 
packages. I dealt with this by creating the undeaD library:

https://github.com/dlang/undeaD