Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/16/2022 12:20 PM, Fry 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.

I'm sorry, but we don't have enough staff to maintain multiple versions 
simultaneously, especially on a volunteer basis. Most of us are not paid.


> What they did and what is probably being done by other individuals is to just 
> stick to one version of D, a single release. Then hope you don't come across a 
> bug you need fixed. Not sure who else you meant to ask, but yah long-term 
> develop with D sucks compared to other languages.

Often people want 3 bug fixes along with 2 enhancements. Trying to create 
various combinations of these in multiple binaries is pretty hard to do.