Right now, what's the most important for the success and adoption of D?

[Don Clugston]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> I wanted to probe the D community of the following issue:
> 
> Right now, what would the most important thing for the success and 
> adoption of D? In other words, if one had to use D to develop a medium 
> or large scale software, what would be the most important things to 
> have, that we currently don't have (or aren't good enough)?
> (I'm not talking only about language features, in case you didn't get that)
> 
> I ask this on the onset of seeing several people commenting on how they 
> can't wait until we have AST macros, or how the feature X would be 
> awesome to have, while me, now that I actually started to some coding in 
> D (even if in a very small project), would actually rate those a much 
> lower priority versus other things I'd like to have in the D ecosphere. 
>  I'll do some more comments on this but first I'd like to hear about 
> other people's opinions.

1. tango/phobos issue. Walter cannot continue to be responsible for the entire 
standard library as well as the compiler.
2. bugfixes for D1.0
3. gui library
4. other libraries

I don't believe that the lack of new language features is seriously holding 
anyone back.