On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 01:48:21 UTC, bigsandwich wrote:
1) This rant has nothing to do with OP's questions. It does not help him.
I disagree. It does help him. It has the potential to save him time and frustration. One thing that is common among most PL communities is that they do not explicitly and openly communicate design flaws, and every other shortcoming in the language that has the potential to impact the user and their projects, with the outside world. I can understand such a thing from a corporation and their marketing department, whose goal is to make money by manipulating people to buy their stuff, but not from a community of volunteers whose so-called goal is to make life easier for the rest of us.
2) Its a community driven project, and its free.
That's a lame excuse that's been used over and over again in FOSS communities, usually by those who have failed or are in the process of failing. It's getting worse as more and more sophisticated idiots put their junk on Github and then make a big announcement on reddit/HN for others to start using their greatest inventions.
If you would rather use C++ or Rust, you know where to find them.
That's a kind of response one gets from Amerikans everytime someone criticizes the government, the educations system, the financial and the banking system, etc. "If you don't like it, get the f**k out; this is 'Merica, the greatest country in the world on God's greenest earth." The only people who think Amerika is great are the brain-dead and brainwashed Amerikans themselves. So if you want people to use other languages, then stop elevating D to such high places where it doesn't belong.
On DConf, the title of Andrei's next talk should be "D's flaws and why you shouldn't use it." And maybe Walter could talk about how "In 15 years Perl6 introduced more innovations than D in 20". Think about it, D is refurbished C++, done by those with zero experience designing a successful programming language. And what is C++? Possibly one of the worst programming languages in the world. That says something.
