Why do you continue to use D?

[Timon Gehr]

On 09.06.20 17:45, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 15:29:39 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 09.06.20 17:11, 12345swordy wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> An idea that show no progress for what? Two years? I am losing my 
>>> patience with this already. I can't consider d to be a serious 
>>> language if this bug won't be fix in some reasonable time frame in 
>>> the future.
>>>
>>> -Alex
>>
>> I am not sure what you hope to accomplish with this rhetoric. There 
>> seems to be a recent surge in people assuming that people contribute 
>> to the language because they want it to be "popular"/"serious"/...
>> I highly doubt that this is the case and those messages clutter the 
>> forums without adding anything interesting to discussions.
> 
> This is the first bug that I had encounter first hand when programming 
> in d. An bug that hasn't been fixed in years!
> 
> It can be fix by having the druntime providing a interface say "Dispose" 
> and just have the destroy function call that and leave the old 
> deconstructors alone.
> 
> The fix itself is heavily inspired by c# language.
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.idisposable.dispose?view=netcore-3.1 
> 
I don't think that's necessary. Destructors should just inherit the base 
class destructor's attributes, then `destroy` can annotate itself with 
appropriate attributes.

Also see: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20914