My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 17:24:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:01:58PM +0000, bachmeier via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> The things you want - a perfect out-of-the-box Windows 
>> experience, where you can make requests for others to do the 
>> things you want - is not what D has to offer.
>
> While I agree that in an open-source volunteer project like 
> this one, it doesn't make sense to go around telling others 
> what to do (it's their own free time, they get to decide what 
> they like to work on), I think the bit about a perfect 
> out-of-the-box Windows experience is something that we can and 
> should work on, even if we may never get there, given our 
> current manpower.  Reducing unnecessary barriers like this will 
> only benefit us in the long run.  I don't think it's a good 
> idea to just give up on it or ignore it.
>
> And AFAIK, there *are* some people working on improving Windows 
> support, though progress is slow because of limited manpower. 
> (And there's where more volunteers to step up to the plate 
> would help expedite things.) So IMO it's unfair to say that D 
> has absolutely nothing to offer on this front -- it's not 
> perfect yet, but we're getting there!
>
>
> T

Not sure what happened to my response...

Improving the Windows experience is definitely a good thing. The 
Windows experience
is not yet what it should be, and that's where you either have to 
do the work or
pay someone else to do the work.