No household is perfect

[Shammah Chancellor]

On 2013-12-03 03:01:12 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu said:

> On 12/2/13 6:49 PM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
>> On 2013-12-03 00:36:28 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu said:
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>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1rx8r2/go_binary_sizes_are_growing_out_of_control/ 
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>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1rvltx/scala_1_would_not_program_again/#new 
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>>> Andrei
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>> I find this particularly interesting.   Where is the interest in Scala
>> being generated compared to D?
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>> https://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&percent=true&l0=scala&l1=dmd&l2=haskell&l3=-1&l4=-1&commit=Update 
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>> -Shammah
> 
> The graph confirms what I believed - Scala is much more popular than D.
> 
> Odersky's response and the subsequent thread are interesting, too: 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/scala-debate/153H3Ya4Nxk 
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> 
> Andrei


I don't understand it at all though.  I've been using D (off and on) 
since around 0.47.   It's a fanastic language much better than Scala.   
 Props to Walter, and you.    There are some rough edges, but I argue 
about them on this forum, and for the most part many of the things that 
I dislike, or want, have been added or changed in an acceptable way 
over the last 10 years.       I want to see this language succeed.  I 
tell everyone I know about it.

I burned out on D for awhile ago, but I've always poked my head in here 
a couple times a year, and am now using it for a fairly large project.  
 The reason I kept having to abandon it in the past was due to blocking 
compiler bugs with templates & CTFE, but with the new bugzilla I find 
that the bugs I submit are generally noted and fixed in a reasonable 
amount of time now.   I like that the community is more open now.  
There are some beasts who fix bugs really quickly in the frontend.

rant/
With that said, I am finding though that a lot of the documentation on 
the website is not maintained well by the community.   There are a lot 
of references to deprecated features, or things that don't work.   E.G. 
 scope'd calls allocation

scope Foo bar = new Foo;  is all over the documentation.  I've come to 
find out this is deprecated?

Or this message from 2012: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/20120411014440.GA12737@quickfur.ath.cx

The hash-map doc still makes reference to opHash 
(http://dlang.org/hash-map.html).  Which bit me when I copied and 
pasted.
/rant

I will try to do my part on updating these things.

-Shammah