Some questions on latest work

[Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 01:48:21 UTC, bigsandwich wrote:
> 
> 1) This rant has nothing to do with OP's questions.  It does 
> not help him.
>

I disagree. It does help him.  It has the potential to save him 
time and frustration.  One thing that is common among most PL 
communities is that they do not explicitly and openly communicate 
design flaws, and every other shortcoming in the language that 
has the potential to impact the user and their projects, with the 
outside world.  I can understand such a thing from a corporation 
and their marketing department, whose goal is to make money by 
manipulating people to buy their stuff, but not from a community 
of volunteers whose so-called goal is to make life easier for the 
rest of us.

> 2) Its a community driven project, and its free.

That's a lame excuse that's been used over and over again in FOSS 
communities, usually by those who have failed or are in the 
process of failing.  It's getting worse as more and more 
sophisticated idiots put their junk on Github and then make a big 
announcement on reddit/HN for others to start using their 
greatest inventions.

> If you would rather use C++ or Rust, you know where to find 
> them.

That's a kind of response one gets from Amerikans everytime 
someone criticizes the government, the educations system, the 
financial and the banking system, etc.  "If you don't like it, 
get the f**k out; this is 'Merica, the greatest country in the 
world on God's greenest earth."  The only people who think 
Amerika is great are the brain-dead and brainwashed Amerikans 
themselves.  So if you want people to use other languages, then 
stop elevating D to such high places where it doesn't belong.

On DConf, the title of Andrei's next talk should be "D's flaws 
and why you shouldn't use it."  And maybe Walter could talk about 
how "In 15 years Perl6 introduced more innovations than D in 20". 
  Think about it, D is refurbished C++, done by those with zero 
experience designing a successful programming language.  And what 
is C++?  Possibly one of the worst programming languages in the 
world.  That says something.