Having "blessed" 3rd party libraries may make D more popular and stable for building real software.

[Serg Gini]

On Tuesday, 1 July 2025 at 05:47:47 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> If D seeks more users though then it would benefit from an 
>> even more communicative and seamless ecosystem.

D is not
It is just small club of chill tinkerers.

> come to opend, upstream is barely interested in making the std 
> have new uses instead they want to add "safety" "features" you 
> will be told dub is perfect and everything you could every want 
> in an npm clone and the community barely realizes how to run 
> the compiler at all.

OpenD has some fixes and qol features, but I think it is not 
enough to get traction and a lot of new users.
And it is actually developed in the counter direction - like a 
fixed lang for advanced D users, and not for newcomers from other 
langs or people with 0 experience.

> You wont win this fight, it will be smashing your head into a 
> brick wall.

Are winning son?