Why is D unpopular?

[max haughton]

On Monday, 16 May 2022 at 19:20:53 UTC, Fry wrote:
> On Monday, 16 May 2022 at 08:33:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I maintained a personal project that was 60k loc of D for the 
> last 6-7 years. Probably won't pick D again for a long term 
> project again. There was _always_ a new compiler bug whenever I 
> upgraded to a new version of the compiler. I'd try to stick to 
> one version of the compiler, but bug fixes only exist for newer 
> versions. Also a quite a bit of breaking changes, I turned off 
> warnings as errors at some point.
>
> [...]

At Symmetry we stick to one release but then bump to the latest 
one when we know it works.