D2 is really that stable as it is claimed to be?

[deadalnix]

On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at 23:17:57 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/24/2013 2:56 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> It seems nobody comments on almost anything DMC-related 
>> anyway. Isn't
>> this the DMC newsgroup: http://forum.dlang.org/group/c++ ? If 
>> it is,
>> there's hardly a single post per month..
>
> You overlook that it's a very old compiler - 30 years. In its 
> day it had maybe 100,000 users.
>
> People do still use it today, to compile dmd for Win32 for 
> example, and nobody has yet
>
>      EVER
>
> commented on that feature, unless I prompted them, when
>
> I have pointed it out many times over the decades, and the 
> response is always:
>
>     SO WHAT
>
>     WHO CARES
>
> etc. So please forgive my grumpiness about if clang implements 
> it, suddenly it's the greatest, most useful feature ever.

It doesn't seem that surprising to me. If you want a compiler 
that is fast, you use DMC, if you want a compiler that will do 
coffee, you use GCC or clang recently.

I do think the user base you judge on is biased.