On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 18:10:33 UTC, welkam wrote:
On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 14:44:01 UTC, Casual D user
wrote:
Then they come to the forums and see the head people of D
working on ... DMD codegen improvements. That inspires a lot
of confidence that these issues will get fixed beyond fixing
them yourself - because that's what everyone adopting a new
language wants to do.
Do you know what the most complaints about D in the reddit
thread were? D's incredibly old garbage collector, a complete
lack of a good IDE, and a lack of good manual memory
management utilities.
I'm not blaming you, I'm just not sure if you're aware of what
this looks like. If you intend for D to be a hobby project,
then continue on.
I just want to make sure that you understand that he was asking
for low hanging optimization opportunities that could be
implemented in few hours of work?
All the more if he doesn't, that's the trick with impressions:
they don't have to be true to have effects. If that's what it
looks like to someone who comes, then it is a problem.
