D is our last hope

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 18:28:10 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:

> Actually, having written D full time for over 2 years now (I 
> chose D for my indie game stuff), I don't really see D 
> excelling in pretty much anything. The only stuff where I'd 
> barely consider using D now is its `betterC` stuff where it at 
> least does as advertised, and even then getting C dependencies 
> is problematic enough that I'd rather just use C in the first 
> place.

I guess everyone has their own story, but it's hard to understand 
what's difficult about using D to access C dependencies in 2023. 
That's been my use case for a decade and I have no desire to move 
to anything else. C compiler extensions and the preprocessor get 
in the way from time to time, but you just have to deal with that 
crap when you're working with C.