Being Positive

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran 
wrote:
> Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who 
> is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?

Here's an example from 2013, just a few months after I started 
using D. Andrei posted that Facebook had started using D in 
production. Someone thought the best possible response was to 
post this:

When you will look at claim that some language (lets take for 
example C# or Java) "supports feature X", that really means that 
the feature is supported. In D this for sure means that the 
feature is either broken or misdesigned (shared libraries, 
routine code breakages, obsolete ms32 object format, AA arrays, 
shared, const postblits, odd template crosstalk bugs, type system 
holes, segfaulting lambdas, unstable stdlib, absent of 
third-party libraries). Untill this stuff is fixed this is a huge 
barrier irrespective of whether D is used in Facebook or not.