On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 21:40:29 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
This is not true. I was at DConf one year (can't remember which) and I watched the representative of one of D's larger corporate users do everything but actually get on his knees and beg Walter to make a breaking change. IIRC they demonstrated their work around for the missing change a couple of DConf's later.
Are you referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DinkkD6Pt34
We don't all need to be that "ruthless with memory efficiency" ( e.g.I have 24GB of memory on my desktop pc! GC kicks in at what...20MB??)
But some really good points were made nonetheless, and I enjoyed the perspective he offered.
Let's fix the crap we have now. It'll take a while, it's not sexy, and it certainly won't make headlines on HN or Reddit. But it will have the effect of combating the biggest negative that D has to adoption. The perception of instability.
A little overstated perhaps.. I certainly would not be using the word 'crap' or 'instability' describe the current state of D.
But D could benefit from some focused tender love, and care ;-)
