Feedback on Átila's Vision for D

Greatsam4sure greatsam4sure at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 16 17:10:29 UTC 2019


On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at 16:42:28 UTC, Rumbu wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 October 2019 at 13:09:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I will put this here: 
> https://rawgit.com/wilzbach/state-of-d/master/report.html
>
> Summary (community profile/expectations/disappointments):
> - Desktop applications as main area of development;
> - Linux as preferred operating system;
> - Dub as building tool;
> - Visual Studio Code as main editor;
> - Missing language features (tuples, named arguments, string 
> interpolation)
> - Phobos is not intuitive
> - @nogc phobos
> - json serialization;
> - missing phobos important modules;
> - poor compiler error messages;
> - poor debugging experience;
> - @safe is expected to be default;
> - not enough third party libraries;
> - lack of progress on DIPs;
> - ranges are the best;
> - spaces, not tabs :)
>
> I don't necessarily endorse this list (e.g. I sincerely hate 
> dub), but the D Vision seems to ignore it. And I find this more 
> than wrong, personally perceiving it as "we don't care about 
> your opinion, we have our own agenda, get lost".

This effort is lovely. We need must listening and acting on 
people's suggestion so that they can feel at home and open their 
mind to work sincerely. Identity is the first thing in human 
relationship


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