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

[Andre Pany]

On Thursday, 25 April 2019 at 11:27:53 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 April 2019 at 00:28:41 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Sorry, but same could be said about other languages that have 
> better tooling and community support. With the important 
> difference that those other languages will not blow up in your 
> face due to the maintainers fiddling around with new features. 
> As regards maintenance, with D I used to lose a lot of time 
> fixing my code from one compiler version to the next (what a 
> waste of time) or trying to figure out what would be the best 
> way to work around D's messy string handling and how it would 
> affect both the performance and the flow / logic of the 
> program. Again, Tripaneer seems to use D only for one specific 
> purpose, so it's a niche application that says nothing about 
> D's _general_ usefulness. You can write a great program for one 
> particular purpose in Lisp too and go on about how great it is. 
> That says nothing about how you will fare once you leave your 
> bubble.
>
> [...]

It would be great if you can provide constructive feedback with 
detailed points we can work on.
What issues do you have while updating dmd version? What is 
poorly implemented in your opinion?

If you help us, we can help you.

Kind regards
Andre