What are the worst parts of D?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 23 22:54:30 PDT 2014


On 9/23/14, 9:46 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> So in that respect I understand the push for C++ support because that's
> the speed bump that Andrei has hit.  But here's the thing... by pursuing
> this we're effectively focusing all of our efforts *on another
> language*.  And we're doing so when D itself still needs a lot of work.
> Maybe not in any truly immense ways, but as I said before, those tiny
> things can seem huge when you're already struggling to justify just
> using the language at all. Maybe all this will pull together into a
> cohesive whole, but so far it feels kind of disconnected.  So that's
> part of what I meant by "tightening up."

You need a spoon of rennet to turn a bucket of milk into a bucket of 
yogurt. No matter how much milk you add, that won't help. You want to 
add milk. I know we must add rennet. -- Andrei



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