Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 15:12:33 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 15:04:39 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 14:59:30 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Spending dozens of hours spreading negativity on online forums 
>> (of languages you don't like!) is the definition of lost time.
>
> Don't like? I used to like D very much and still do, it's not 
> that I hate it all of a sudden. It's just that I can no longer 
> use it due to various restrictions / issues that are down to 
> bad management, nothing else. One has to be practical 
> sometimes. If anything I'm sad.

Yes, I suspect people here honestly like D, and want it to be 
more perfect, but it has to be reminded time and time again that 
noone knows exactly what should be done - it's a bit like 
predicting the future -, even if we did know, it's volunteer work 
out of love so we cannot have that much direction (much less 
impulsed from the outside).

Of course the community can have blind spots but I don't think 
people would agree what those blind spots are.

"D is failing" has the attribute of a meme, if the number of 
users are great, funding solify, more compilers and platform 
support exist than ever before (without any seasonal hype) then 
there is no real reason to worry about the competition.

Really I've heard it for 14 years, "listen to me because D is 
failing".

OTOH An important metrics of an open-source project is 
_well-being of contributors_, and their numbers, and that is the 
prime attribute to cater for.

Hence why I think we get too much of a good thing (complaint 
directly aimed at important contributors) that worsen the 
situation it is supposed to improve.