The issue with D...

[Ecstatic Coder]

On Tuesday, 5 February 2019 at 10:47:36 UTC, Laurent Tréguier 
wrote:
> On Monday, 4 February 2019 at 23:28:51 UTC, Ben wrote:
>> 1. That is a ... Tatum ... LINUX EXAMPLE, so its already not 
>> platform agnostic path.
>> 2. You think that running a hashbang example is a good 
>> introduction to end users?
>> 3. People lean the wrong way and are bypassing the dub package 
>> manager
>>
>> Let me compare to a few languages:
>>
>> Go: import ( "net/http" ) ...
>>
>> Ready, set, go ...
>>
>> Crystal: require "http/server"
>>
>> Ready, set, go ...
>
> My 2 cents:
> The comparison cith Go holds, but comparing D with Crystal is 
> invalid if you are talking about Windows issues; since Crystal 
> isn't natively available on Windows.

Indeed, but the problem remains.

Using D for server and GUI development should appear easy and 
natural.

The current vibe.d examples isn't conveying that, with all its 
"black magic" comments.

Contrarily to what D's "leadership" thinks, D has the potential 
to become a very good competitor to Go and Crystal for server 
development, as both of them are also performant garbage 
collected languages.

And with dlangui, developing connected desktop application is a 
real pleasure.

D should be promoted for what it does best, and should how 
complex application can be made easily and efficiently with 
simple code.