On the panel discussion at Dconf day 3

[Carl Sturtivant]

On Saturday, 23 March 2024 at 03:22:49 UTC, harakim wrote:
> Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up. By stabilizing the 
> language, all the things D is missing will start coming into 
> play like libraries, IDE support and so forth.

+1

> A vast majority of tools and libraries built with D will not 
> compile today so are unavailable. Imagine if you built a tool 
> and it worked forever, like in Java or C#. Instead of 
> constantly needing to rebuild old tools and libraries, you 
> could work on new ones. That's what problem they are solving.

+1

> I even think OpenD will be a good thing for D. Mainline D will 
> continue to attract companies and people who want stability. 
> OpenD seems to be moving towards a more modern entry-level 
> approach with a single tool to do everything and including tons 
> of libraries from the get-go.

+1

> The cross pollination is going to be hard to compete with.

+1