This is why I don't use D.

[Dennis]

On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 15:34:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> but it doesn't fix the fundamental problem that whoever wrote 
> the library needs to continue to maintain it or pass it on to 
> someone else to maintain it when they don't want to maintain it 
> anymore, or anyone using it is going to be screwed.

It's okay for a library to become outdated, as long as new 
libraries emerge. When a user finds 5 dub packages that provide a 
solution, and they try the first 3 and they all fail, he might 
get the impression it's all broken. If it was shown that only the 
last two build on the newest compiler, they could immediately 
pick that.

If it is a niche package and there's only one option which 
doesn't build, then it's still a problem yeah. But it would still 
be an improvement if maintained libraries wouldn't have to 
compete with broken abandoned ones in the search results.