On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 14:21:56 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 13:54:40 UTC, Chris wrote:
full-fledged IDE, there would be other concerns (or excuses).
D scares people away. It's too raw, too bare bones, everything
is still moving like hot lava, and maybe people are
intimidated by
Yes, stability is important for commercial development. I
notice some people say that you can just lock yourself to a
particular compiler, but this does not work. Not even for C++.
Yesterday I had to upgrade to a more recent version of clang
just to get a library to work, which used some C++14 features.
Yet, it would be a tragedy for D to freeze on backwards
compatibility like C++ has done. Rust and D has the advantage
that they can move forward faster than C++. Having lots of
commerical development in D right now would just be a drag, IMO.
The funny thing is that people demand that D be changed, else
they won't use it. And at the same time they claim they don't use
it, because it changes too fast.
