On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 18:18:04 UTC, drug wrote:
It's rather funny to see how one man who forced to program in programming language he doesn't like can triggers comments from lurkers that they don't like D too. No offense. D is in great form and is getting much better and better and I'd like to ask D community to continue their good work and make D great again.
Most people lurking here are people that WANT to use D but are offset by the issues. D is not bad as a language but it has issue. Their are issues at every step in the D eco system and each of those create a barrier.
Its those same issues that never seem to get solved and are secondary citizens compared to adding more "future" features or trying to Up-one C++...
Its not BetterC or static if or whatever new feature of the month, that brings in new people. You can advertise D as much as you want, but when people download D and very few people stay, is that not a hint...
The fact that only recently the D Poll pointed out that most people are using VSC and not VS. I am like "what, you only figure that out now". Given the mass popularity of VSC... That alone tells you how much the mindset of D is stuck in a specific eco space.
