D has become unbearable and it needs to stop

[mw]

On Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 16:13:54 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 15:48:26 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> Thank you for sharing this and this is a valid concern indeed. 
>> Unfortunately D is run as a hobbyist project for langauage 
>> geeks with little concern for the professional environment. It 
>> is nothing wrong with language geeks having a project but it 
>> doesn't mix well with projects that require stable 
>> language+stdlib. I repeat over and over again, we need to 
>> start with D3 so that language geeks can have a platform 
>> without interfering with D2. D2 should be put in maintenance 
>> mode now and the language should be considered to be finished.
>
> Thank you for understanding my issues. I also think D2 is good 
> enough to be considered finished. Personally, I would've 
> branched it at around 2.100. That's before ImportC.

Fully agree! and I also suggested *over and over again* to 
separate D2 and D3 for a long time.

And as another evidence: just look at how fast this threads grow: 
30 replies in ~3 hours!


> I too get this feeling that D is a hobbyist project, mostly 
> directed towards language creators, not software engineers. 
> Which is why most of people I know avoid D as if it was a 
> plague. And which is why there isn't much 3rdparty on dub to 
> begin with.

Me too, it's much more like a hobbyist project.

@Walter, do you hear?