Why is D unpopular?

[max haughton]

On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 at 19:07:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:57:13AM -0700, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> For example, look at the dmd source code itself. We maintain, 
>> by hand, a set of equivalent .h for them. A cumulatively 
>> enormous amount of time has been expended on that, and 
>> finding/fixing the bugs from when they get out of sync.
> [.[..]
>
> This is, to me, a flashing red (and beeping) neon sign begging 
> for auto-generation of .h from .d.  At least, that's what I'd 
> do in my own project if I faced a similar situation.
>
> It's never a good idea to maintain two (slightly different) 
> copies of
> the same thing by hand.
>
>
> T

In this case it's actually a really good idea because politically 
it forces people to try and look after the C++ header interface.

One day it'll likely be more automated but until that automation 
can detect nasty changes it's better to have the frontend.h diff 
be extremely obvious.