Is Anything Holding you back?

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 13:24:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 10/02/2015 09:11 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> On 02-Oct-2015 05:25, Yaser wrote:
>>> Are there any critical frameworks or libraries that are 
>>> holding you back
>>> in fully investing in D? Obviously I think D is an awesome 
>>> language, but
>>> some frameworks/libraries hold me back, wish I could do 
>>> everything in D.
>>
>> My personal favorite (8+ years old OMG):
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238
>>
>> Makes me want to laugh every time we discuss "problems" of D. 
>> Bugs are
>> as usual at the top of problems in my book.
>
> I agree it's a hole in the module system, but it's not quite 
> something that prevents work from being done.
>
>> And couple more from the miserable line of basic encapsulation 
>> not working:
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463
>
> These seem in the same category. Not to say they aren't 
> important.

Yeah. They do make it much easier to break other code when you 
make changes (including making changes in something like Phobos), 
but mostly, they don't prevent work getting done. They are pretty 
embarrassing though.

- Jonathan M Davis