Feedback on Átila's Vision for D

[Chris]

On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at 16:42:28 UTC, Rumbu 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".

I would often perceive it in the same way. And the irony would be 
all this talk of "community" and "contributing" at the same time. 
Anyway, we'll see if things will take a different direction now.