D is our last hope

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 12:29:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> I'm sorry that Adam feels it isn't happening fast enough, but 
> his string interpolation implementation is not the only thing 
> that needs attention right now.

How do you prioritize things that need attention? For example, 
DMD is one of the flagship products of the D Language Foundation. 
Its main selling point is the compilation speed. However the 
out-of-the-box performance of `rdmd helloworld.d` is very far 
from perfect and looks inferior compared to `go run 
helloworld.go`. For more details see 
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/fqziujkpdbivsqxsgszu@forum.dlang.org and https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24289

Any business oriented company, let alone Apple, would normally 
address a similar issue as their absolutely top priority before 
anything else. But unpolished bad looking products are much more 
common in the open source world. The developers enjoy working on 
over-engineered contraptions, but neglect the boringly simple 
obvious usability fixes.