Why is D unpopular?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 12:08:26AM +0000, monkyyy via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 23:41:58 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > [...] I would rate 99% of non-trivial codebases out there somewhere
> > between 0 to 1 on a scale of 1-10.
> > 
> > If you think dmd is bad, wait till you see the code of an
> > "enterprise" compiler for an "enterprise" language. I guarantee you,
> > you will need therapy afterwards. :-P  To this day I still suffer
> > PTSD from having once attempted to read glibc source code...
[...]
> I feel allot of language dev is academic, and enterprise grade code is
> worse then academica, also averages that include extermes on a linear
> scale bias upward

IMO, in spite of all its flaws and dark corners, D strikes a good
balance between "academic" design and pragmatic enterprise-style code.


T

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