D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

[Laurent Tréguier]

On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 15:23:12 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 14:26:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 11:32:42 UTC, Chris wrote:
>
>>> [...]
>
>>
>> D has never been about smooth experiences!  That's a 
>> commercial benefit if you think that hormesis brings benefits 
>> and you are not looking for programmers of the trained-monkey, 
>> strap a few APIs together type.
>
> It's high time it got a bit smoother if you want people to use 
> it. Is everybody who doesn't use cli and knows all compiler 
> flags by heart a coding monkey? Has it ever occurred to you 
> that people want a smooth experience so they can concentrate on 
> a job and get done with it?

Yes. It almost sounds like a smooth experience would be a bad 
thing to have, especially with the classic "you don't need an IDE 
anyway" speech. Editing experience seems often dismissed as 
unimportant, when it's one of the first things new users will 
come across when trying out D. First impressions can matter a lot.