Is D really that bad?

Fri Oct 28 20:59:58 UTC 2022

On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 16:00:19 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> I seriously think we should try and "fix" D instead of chasing 
> everything else.
> Focus on expressiveness, plasticity and stability. We don't 
> have to be best at *everything*, but we can be decent.

Well, I am happy that there is a focus on no-gc support now, but 
I wonder if it will reach a competitive stage where language 
features dont rely on a GC. I dont sense any urgency in how this 
is approached, so maybe it wont happen.  Until then many looking 
for a system level programming alternative will choose another 
language. But then again maybe that low level market is getting 
saturated now and it would be better for D to become more high 
level...

Either way, defining a key type of application development that D 
should be best for is needed to define missing/incomplete 
features.

Without such a definition I think it will be difficult to agree 
on what to «fix» outside of obvious bugs.