It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

[bauss]

On Friday, 16 November 2018 at 13:10:19 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> I've never had C++ projects break due to a compiler update, nor 
> have I ever filed a clang or gcc bug.

But that's because C++ is way older than D and has had a lot more 
work done to it.

C++ hasn't always been elegant and I'll bet you Walter can come 
up with a lot of issues with C++ from back when he worked on C++ 
compilers.

Clang and GCC do have a lot of bugs too though, but they're 
usually much more "precise" and not so much "general" as most 
bugs in D, but eventually D will reach the same level.

I have never had any breakage because of a D compiler update in 
my own projects for the past 2+ years, but I have with 3rd party 
libraries though, so I'm not entirely free of that either.

As long as D is as open as it is, then I think it'll continue to 
have breakage with each bigger release.

The good thing though is that it's usually not necessary to 
update your compiler version and you can generally wait a few 
versions until you update and that way you can skip most breakage.