On 10/02/2015 03:24 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 10/02/2015 09:11 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On 02-Oct-2015 05:25, 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.
My personal favorite (8+ years old OMG):
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238
Makes me want to laugh every time we discuss "problems" of D. Bugs are
as usual at the top of problems in my book.
I agree it's a hole in the module system, but it's not quite something
that prevents work from being done.
It slows it down. The most annoying part of it is that it introduces
clashes with private aliases introduced for disambiguation. I.e., the
mechanism that most conveniently deals with ambiguous symbols is
basically defunct because of spurious ambiguous symbol errors.