Is Anything Holding you back?

[krzaq via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 02:25:21 UTC, 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.

Nothing major for me, just a plentitude of small problems.

For example: you can't rely on Clock.currTime.toString() (or ISO 
string overloads) to provide a reliable fixed-length 
representation for logging purposes and the class mysteriously 
lacks any kind of .format() function that's available pretty much 
everywhere else.

When I decide to write a small tool in D, I pretty ensure that, 
next to D's awesome features, I'll be exposed to some ugly warts 
of the language or its ecosystem. My experience with DUB packages 
(btw, there should be a word for it, like Ruby's gems) is that, 
at least on Windows, they are often out of date and require 
undocumented build steps to even build -- and that's before you 
try to use them and hit the wall of RTFS solutions to 
documentation.

TL;DR: instead of focusing on solving my problem, I have to focus 
on solving problems unknown in other languages. Saving time by 
using fantastic language features and then wasting twice as much 
reinventing the wheel is not what I want to do.