On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 02:25:21 UTC, Yaser wrote:
Are there any critical frameworks or libraries that are holding you back in fully investing in D? Obviously I think D is an awesome language, but some frameworks/libraries hold me back, wish I could do everything in D.
Nothing is holding me back from using D on my personal projects. At this point, all of them are in D. The primary thing that I'm lacking is time to work on them.
Now, using D at work is another thing entirely, but that has more to do with there being existing codebases and it being very difficult to talk coworkers into using a new language or technology than there necessarily being any technical issues.
Sure, there are some things that would be easier to do if they were written in D or if we had better wrappers for existing C++ stuff (e.g. it would be great to be able to fully use Qt from D), but because it's trivial to call C functions, and even interacting with C++ is possible on some level, it's not really a blocker when something isn't in D - just annoying.
- Jonathan M Davis
