What are the worst parts of D?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 23 23:24:21 PDT 2014


On 9/23/14, 11:22 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 24/09/14 06:59, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
>> I agree with Sean quite a bit here.
>>
>> Let's turn the camera around and look at it from a different angle.  I'm
>> hard pressed to find a new feature from the last few years that's
>> actually thoroughly complete.  And by complete I mean that druntime and
>> phobos use it everywhere it should be used.
>>
>> Shared libraries?  nope.
>> Any of the new attributes?  nope.
>> 64 bit support?  nope.
>> const?
>> shared?
>> cleaning up object?
>>
>> .. nope.
>>
>> And that's not even getting into the big gaps that exist.
>
> I completely agree. Lets focus on the D users we actually have, not some
> imaginary C++ users that will come running as soon as there is enough
> C++ support.

Those are very real. I know this for a fact. -- Andrei



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