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

[Seb]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 13:08:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 12:49:04 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 12:34:12 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>
>> While I would agree with your arguments 5 years ago, I can't 
>> agree these days. So much happened which made D and its eco 
>> system usuable from small companies to big companies.
>>
>> Please provide details where you see the issues, otherwise it 
>> is impossible to understand what you mean.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Andre
>
> One example is vibe.d, I used it until roughly a year ago (I 
> had used it for years) and I remember the dozens of compiler 
> warnings with every new version of dmd. Sönke / vibe.d devs 
> were (and still are?) playing catch-up with dmd.

FYI: those are just deprecations. This thing that allows us to 
slowly change DMD, but still have stability.

Since a bit more than a year, vibe.d is part of the project 
tester and thus is ensured to always compile as its testsuite is 
run on every PR.