This is why I don't use D.

[Andre Pany]

On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 06:47:00 UTC, Everlast wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 01:39:04 UTC, Paul Backus 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 00:49:36 UTC, Everlast wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> If you don't want to use D, then don't use D. No one is 
>> holding a gun to your head.
>>
>> It seems to me like what D needs, right now, is people who are 
>> willing to roll up their sleeves and get to work when they see 
>> something that needs fixing. If that's something you're either 
>> unable or unwilling to do, for whatever reason, then D 
>> probably isn't a good choice for you right now. And that's ok. 
>> We all have our own goals and priorities, and no single 
>> programming language is going to be a perfect fit for 
>> everybody.
>
>
> I'm not going to sit here and spend have my time fixing shit 
> that should have never broke in the first place.
>
> Thanks, you've made a great decision for me, I'm not longer 
> using D for anything. The only reason I used it was for it's 
> binary support and meta programming... no longer. Screw 
> performance, non one else really cares and one doesn't 
> necessarily need meta programming.
>
> Thanks, see you in another life!

You showed as a painful issue in our eco system which we can work 
on, thank you.

You do not need to work on this but do you have a proposal for a 
solution? What would you help (ranking according to last update, 
...)

Kind regards
Andre