The current status of D?

[Peter]

Mehrdad wrote:
> On 12/1/2011 1:24 PM, Buk wrote:
>> Is D ready for prime time?
> Idk, the fact that I run across transitive-const-related situations
> like
> stackoverflow.com/questions/7948612/annoying-transitive-const-ness-issue-in-d
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7948612/annoying-transitive-const-ness-issue-in-d>
> makes it so I can't use D at all, since it's hard to go around these
> issues sometimes.
> As long as the language suffers from const issues,

It seems to be a hard problem (const). I mean, if you are in analysis 
paralyis thinkin about it, yeah, but is it that hard. Do I need to hire a 
consultant to figure out one little word or concept? If the whole world 
of programming languages revolves around "const", why hasn't D, that 
purportedly (noting the shyness of it perpatrators) has solved major 
issues with "the also ran C++", figured that out? (BTW, I know the 
answer, if that makes it any less blashphemous).

> I think,

I think what passes for "thinking" these days is pretty fucking piss poor 
lame. But then again, I don't vote for it either.

> it won't
> be ready for prime time, since 'const' is supposed to be one of its
> highest strengths,

Seriously? If that is true, I will stop drinking.

> and at the same time it's part-broken.