Community Rant

[Mark via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote:
> [...]
>
> 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.
>
> [...]

This kind of criticism comes up fairly often in the forums, maybe 
once every few weeks. I can link to the recent threads on the 
matter, but I'm sure you can make an educated guess about the 
responses therein. The gist of it, in my view, is that:

"[Making] D more approachable and attractive to people thinking 
of picking up the language."

just isn't a high priority right now.