Community Rant

[Jonathan Shamir via Digitalmars-d]

https://dlang.org/htod.html

I click download and get an exe!

And in the bugs section:
No linux version.

I'll start with the productive part. If anyone can point me out 
to the sources of htod I would love to compile for linux + osx. 
Any task seems more attractive to me than manually converting a 
1000 line header to D.

I'm a D lover and advocate. I actually get a salary writing D 
code for a cutting-edge startup.

But lets be honest. If I was just interested to learn about this 
"modern system programming language" that is C++ done right, I 
would dismiss D very quickly. We need to get together as a 
community and rethink your priorities, because with problems like 
this we're making it very hard for newcomers to trust in this 
very poorly adapted language.

Programming tools used by day to day programmers should be a 
priority. Because everyone expects valgrind to work.

The standard library should be a priority. It's far from complete 
(hopefully my company will contribute in this respect in the near 
future).

The DUB package repository is horrible! More often than not, the 
packages are so poorly written I end up just writing my own 
implementation. Adding the ability to "rate" packages would go a 
long way in improving the situation.

I understand hacking the frontend is way more interesting to most 
of the community. But if we don't find the time to improve on our 
visibility and language maturity, D will never get the attention 
it deserves.

P.S. I don't know you guys (except Ali and Andrei which I had the 
honor to meet). I don't follow the forums. I'm sure you often 
speak about these topics here. So - if I offended anyone know 
it's not personal (I don't know who you are). I just want to 
share my impressions and experience as an actual day to day D 
user.