Is D right for me?

[Walter Bright]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Of course, projects like QtD suffer from the same sort of problem as a compiler 
> does in that it's not necessarily very useful until it's complete. Lots of 
> people may be interested in using QtD, but if it's not at least close to done, 
> it's not going to be useable enough to use in any major project, so people won't 
> use, they won't report bugs on it, and the won't give any kind of feedback on 
> the project. So, the poor QtD people then have to get a _lot_ of code done 
> before they see any kind of positive feedback from the community, and when they 
> _do_ start getting feedback, much of it is likely to be negative because feature 
> X hasn't been implemented yet or feature Y is buggy. A lot of people have given 
> up on D for similar reasons. Hopefully enough of the problems that they were 
> having with dmd get fixed soon enough that they're able to actually continue 
> working on the project without getting too frustrated over it.


Things sure have changed. Back in the 80's, people were able to get real 
projects done with absolutely *terrible* compilers. Compilers have steadily 
gotten better, and so have expectations.