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

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 20:48:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/14/19 2:09 PM, IGotD- wrote:
>> That in mind it is absolute killer feature of D to have a 
>> C/C++ FFI that many other languages don't have.
>
> I agree, and sadly it's not a popular enough opinion. A couple 
> of years ago I called on the phone two of our most promising 
> contributors who asked what they should help with, and pitched 
> the core.stdcpp project. They both declined it. No hard 
> feelings - we're grateful enough they chose to do other things 
> within the D milieu -, but it goes to show that planning and 
> "finding a guy" and telling people what to work on is easier 
> said than done, at least for me. I'm glad Manu has taken point 
> on that, wished he got wider help.

I have considered using D for a long time, and yet haven't. The 
reasons are maybe applicable to many. Ultimately it boils down to 
what you need to do to make a living. If you had tons of spare 
money you can probably afford to work on something you like or 
think is good; but if you need to earn then you have to go where 
the demand is.

The tooling (editor and debugger) is important too for anyone 
that wants to get the job done or suggest D to an organisation. 
Here is a proposal:

Freeze D development for 2 years and redirect all energy to 
tooling.