On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 19:15:28 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 17:32:53 UTC, Adam wrote:
My experiences with D recently have not been fun.
My main concern with .NET is portability and performance. I am
going to give in to the portability and just assume Mono is
good enough. Performance wise, I'd prefer D, but .NET is
performant enough for most apps. Maybe in a few years things
will change, I can't wait that long. Sorry guys! (not that you
will miss me)
OK, the frustration is understandable. D is good enough to
impress in short-run but has problems damaging itself in the
long run. This leads to impression -> frustration cycle.
Well, that may or may not be true. But someone who finds the
error messages offputting isn't a good exemplar of putative
deficiencies that show up in the long run, because these are part
of the initial learning curve and after a year or two or
experience it's really unlikely to be a main factor in
determining choice of framework. Whereas it's understandable
that in the beginning it can be a big source of frustration. And
if you leave the Microsoft ecosystem, I am not sure that D fares
so badly in relation to a certain C family language that has had
a big influence.
He didn't say how long he had been using D for, but as others
point out one underestimates how much one knows in relation to
existing languages, and forgets that it is a degree of work over
months and years to learn something new...
A better example of long run deficiencies might be the guy here
who tried to use D at work for embedded systems, which involved
making his own runtime etc, and who gave up, at least for a
while, in frustration. On the other hand, it's always tough to
try to be the first to do something, especially when your career
is at stake.
Either you need portability and you care what Mono does, or you
don't.
Commercial decisions are often a matter of tradeoffs. Eg for
internal enterprise software you might find it valuable to be
able to run on both linux and windows, but you can always make it
a service on windows if linux is too much trouble.
