Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Andre Pany]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 05:35:41 UTC, silentwatcher wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 04:48:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> i think there are some other things you don't understand yet.
> go back in this thread and read what people think about D and 
> why they think it should be forked.
> you guys made lab experiment of it instead of finding out what 
> the real world programming needs. why are people dissatisfied?
> stop finding all those mediocre things/solutions like help here 
> or do that. i admire the gdc project but i would not use it.
> my experience is, that programmers (at work) look at D and are 
> afraid of using it. to large, to many features that are nice 
> but nobody needs, web like syntax, the GC and after reading in 
> the forum, they are even more afraid to use an unstructured 
> experiment.
> then there no tools, libraries etc., just visuald and that is 
> the only reason why some try D for a short time.
> well now will tell us again - write the tools/libraries, but in 
> a business you don't have the time to do that. all those things 
> come with c++, c# or java. why should i invest time and money 
> into D?
> no time to experiment.
> i like D, followed it for a long, long time, but it turned into 
> a moloch. some of us still use D1 for little tasks. i hope 
> somebody takes D1, strips the gc, adds templates, cleans up 
> this mess and forgets about the rest of the bloat.

I am working in the "business" 9 to 5 and I can say 90% of what 
you write is just wrong. It seems you had a look 5 years ago at D 
and all the improvements and community effort since then you 
haven't noticed.
The D Language is used at companies and the tooling, libraries 
have greatly improved. I enjoy every day I can write D coding at 
work because it works so much better than other languages.

Please take the time to validate what you say.

Kind regards
Andre