Prime time???

[Walter Bright]

Samuel MV wrote:
>> What are you fighting right now with D?
> 
> Well, my fight it's with the templates. I understand the basics, but they are
> complex if you want to use them properly and take advantage of their power. I'm
> not a real C++ programmer so I don't have enough background (I have programmed in
> C and assembler for many years, some simple classes in C++, and the last years
> only in Java and Cobol/JCLs).
> 
> My problem it's that I have little time for so many changes, although I understand
> that they are important improvements.
> 
> Also, now, I need to learn PHP to build a web application, it's a very simple
> language but with lots of functions for web (obviously, it was designed for this).
> Instead of that, I would like to spend that time with D, but I'd need a bigger
> library with enough functions/classes to build my own application, and/or a more
> stable language (in which I could help to build the D libraries ;-).

Templates aren't easy. But the new template stuff isn't breaking 
existing ones, and is not likely to. So it shouldn't interfere with 
someone writing template libraries.