Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[RhyS]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 17:12:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I got bitten by this just yesterday.  Update dmd git master, 
> update vibe.d git master, now my vibe.d project doesn't compile 
> anymore due to some silly string.d error somewhere in one of 
> vibe.d's dependencies. :-/

Welcome to my life with D for the past 2 years. You can not rely 
on D as new features break old ones or create regressions. You 
can also not rely on its packages, because new features or 
changes break packages. Or packages that depend on each other 
break.

In the end, the answer is simply, you can not rely on D. Unless 
you want to stick with one compiler version and write every 
feature yourself.

Other languages also suffer from issues like this but they get 
fixed so fast that in general the impact is rarely noticed. With 
D you can be stuck waiting days or weeks! or spending hours 
fixing it yourself. Again and again ...

So your time doing actual work is absorbed by constant fixing D 
issues. Some will say that contributing to a open source program 
is the cost to pay but when you have the choice between well 
established and stable languages and D... That cost very fast 
becomes: Lets use C/C++/Rust/Go/... And it is saying a lot when 
young languages like Rust and Go gave me less trouble then D.

D has potential but this push for BetterC, better C++ 
integration, more DIPS down the pipeline... When is enough, 
enough! It feels like D is more some people their personal 
playground to push and try out new features then a actually well 
supported and stable language.

You can play around with D at home or for small project but for 
long term projects, where you bank your company's future on D, 
you need to be crazy.