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

[Chris]

On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 22:00:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

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> Seriously, people need to get over the fantasy that they can 
> just use Unicode without understanding how Unicode works.  Most 
> of the time, you can get the illusion that it's working, but 
> actually 99% of the time the code is actually wrong and will do 
> the wrong thing when given an unexpected (but still valid) 
> Unicode string.  You can't drive without a license, and even if 
> you try anyway, the chances of ending up in a nasty accident is 
> pretty high.  People *need* to learn how to use Unicode 
> properly before complaining about why this or that doesn't work 
> the way they thought it should work.
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> T

Python 3 gives me this:

print(len("á"))
1

and so do other languages.

Is it asking too much to ask for `string` (not `dstring` or 
`wstring`) to behave as most people would expect it to behave in 
2018 - and not like Python 2 from days of yore? But of course, D 
users should have a "Unicode license" before they do anything 
with strings. (I wonder is there a different license for UTF8 and 
UTF16 and UTF32, Big / Little Endian, BOM? Just asking.)

So again, for the umpteenth time, it's the users' fault. I see. 
Ironically enough, it was the language developers' lack of 
understanding of Unicode that led to string handling being a 
nightmare in D in the first place. Oh lads, if you were 
politicians I'd say that with this attitude you're gonna the next 
election. I say this, because many times the posts by (core) 
developers remind me so much of politicians who are completely 
detached from the reality of the people. Right oh!