D is our last hope

[aberba]

On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 14:02:26 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 05:40:04 UTC, Hors wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 15:02:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>>> On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 21:21:46 UTC, Bradley Chatha 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I suppose this is why my experience with D has been much 
>>> better than reported by others. When I started, I was able to 
>>> call into R for anything I needed, with no loss of 
>>> efficiency. Need a database? It's there. Need a machine 
>>> learning library like TensorFlow? It's there. Need parallel 
>>> random number generation? It's there.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> D is not the best when it comes to interop with other languages
>
> It's not terribly helpful to post something like that without 
> elaborating. I've been doing that for ten years and it works 
> great.

Sometimes I wonder how many of the D criticisms come from those 
who have been using the language for yrs in this community or 
have experience enough to make an informed critique.


 From my limited understanding, D allows nogc code, GC code, safe 
code, interop with many langs, etc. yet it's always not enough 
for some reason.

I wonder how many of those folks are really serious about using 
the language cus it *seems* to me that a lot of experienced D 
devs are quietly getting things done.


Is there something I'm missing?