A few comments about D

[bearophile]

Paulo Pinto:

> - the language is still not mature - Andrei's book still does not fully 
> replace the language and
> when one browses the mailing lists there are still quite a few features 
> being discussed, not clear
> enough what the direction ought to be.

It's the other way round. Those discussions are a sign of good health for any language, they are necessary.
Every language actively used has similar discussions, even Fortran and Ada. See as example:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/


> And the comment about F# is spot on. It is easier to get a client approval 
> to use F#, Scala, Clojure
> even Haskell on a new project than D, because there are quite a few big 
> companies/projects using them.

Haskell was created as "laboratory language", and today it has more design discussions than D still :-)

Bye,
bearophile