On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 03:50:44 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
Every single one of the people rushing to defend D at the time
has since come around. There is still some debate on whether,
points vs. counter points, choosing D was a good idea, but the
overwhelming consensus inside Weka today is that D has *fatal*
flaws and no path to fixing them.
And by "fatal", I mean literally flaws that are likely to
literally kill the language.
How so? If he's right with those issues, they can definitely
prevent D from becoming mainstream, but how would they kill D? I
mean, will not there always be some existing users who have no
need or wish to move on?
