D needs to focus and better the available resources

bachmeier via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 9 14:07:19 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 17:29:08 UTC, karabuta wrote:
> A lot of request are made most often about what needs to be 
> added in D and what is lacking (multiple compilers, debugging 
> tools, IDEs, GUI, ...). I think a lot has been done already and 
> I suggest focus should be centered on making them stable. 
> Sadly, some have even been abandoned after all the work that 
> went in to them (no names).
>
> Already contribution is not much, so I believe stabilizing what 
> we have now will at least give us one thing that is reliable 
> rather than many that are not much useful for production.
>
> As Andrei said, people still request more features to be added 
> to even C++. That game never stops.

D is not like Rust or Go. There is no paid team following through 
on what they are told to do. It is a group of contributors 
working on what they wish, with Walter and Andrei having final 
say on new additions to the language. The best you can do is work 
on making something stable. Maybe others will follow you.


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