On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote:
[...]
But lets be honest. If I was just interested to learn about
this "modern system programming language" that is C++ done
right, I would dismiss D very quickly. We need to get together
as a community and rethink your priorities, because with
problems like this we're making it very hard for newcomers to
trust in this very poorly adapted language.
Programming tools used by day to day programmers should be a
priority. Because everyone expects valgrind to work.
[...]
This kind of criticism comes up fairly often in the forums, maybe
once every few weeks. I can link to the recent threads on the
matter, but I'm sure you can make an educated guess about the
responses therein. The gist of it, in my view, is that:
"[Making] D more approachable and attractive to people thinking
of picking up the language."
just isn't a high priority right now.
