Is D really that bad?

[Imperatorn]

On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 20:59:58 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that's good. Also making phobos more "strict".

We'll see what happens. We shouldn't loose hope at least. Let's 
make our fair share of PRs, DIPs and bug reporting and I think we 
will be in quite good shape before 2025 :)