What are the worst parts of D?
Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Oct 6 00:44:56 PDT 2014
On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 14:55:38 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>
> TDPL was an absolutely awesome book because it expained "why?"
> as opposed to "how?". Such insight into language authors
> rationale is incredibly helpful for long-term contribution.
> Unfortunately, it didn't cover all parts of the language and
> many new things has been added since it was out.
>
I would also add that it's scaring not having seen a single
comment of Andrej here:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3998
> Right now I have no idea where the development is headed and
> what to expect from next few releases. I am not speaking about
> wiki.dlang.org/Agenda but about bigger picture. Unexpected
> focus on C++ support, thread about killing auto-decoding,
> recent ref counting proposal - all this stuff comes from
> language authors but does not feel like a strategic additions.
> It feels like yet another random contribution, no different
> from contribution/idea of any other D user.
+1 on all.
> I am disturbed when Andrei comes with proposal that possibly
> affects whole damn Phobos (memeory management flags) and asks
> to trust his experience and authority on topic while rejecting
> patterns that are confirmed to be working well in real
> production projects. Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt Andrei
> authority on memory management topic (it is miles ahead of mine
> at the very least) but I simply don't believe any living person
> in this world can design such big change from scratch without
> some extended feedback from real deployed projects.
+1000
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/Paolo
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