On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 21:41:24 UTC, Mike wrote:
Suggesting D would be an exercise in futility, unless I can
create a notable project in D in my spare time that
demonstrates its advantages and appeal to the masses. I tried
to do this 2 years ago, but D failed me, primarily due to
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14758
I read this comment from you on another thread too, and (caveat:
I'm not working in such resource constrained domains as you are)
it seems sensible. It seems like it may be a good GSOC project to
modify dmd as you suggest elsewhere. Have you considered trying
to find someone to do that?
I believe D has the potential to bury all other emerging
languages out there, but only if it drops its historical
baggage.
At the moment, I'm of the opinion that D will remain an
obscure language until someone forks D and takes it in a
different direction (unlikely), or the D Foundation decides to
"reboot" and start working on D3 with a new, updated
perspective (more unlikely).
I'd love to see a D3, but that seems unlikely, and more unlikely
if D2 languishes. It seems though that your issues are with the
implementation, not the language itself, so if you got your
wishes below
Instead I suggest following through on things like
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12270 and considering
this proposal
(http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]) instead.
wouldn't you be mostly satisfied with D2?
