On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 00:49:36 UTC, Everlast wrote:
There is really no incentive for me to use D except for it's
language features... everything else it does, besides
performance, is shit compared to what most other languages do.
Really, D wins on very few metrics but the D fanboys will only
focus on those.
If D wants to survive it better get people willing to help it,
making their lives more difficult when there are far better
options out there will only starve D of what it
needs(investing). All those that think D is just fine, you are
cutting your own throats... Eventually D will become defunct
and you'll have to move on. Might be 10 years, 20 years, 30
years... but when Walter and Andrew are done with D in a few
years there will be no one who will keep it alive(maybe a fork
will occur but doubtful it would get anywhere).
If you don't want to use D, then don't use D. No one is holding a
gun to your head.
It seems to me like what D needs, right now, is people who are
willing to roll up their sleeves and get to work when they see
something that needs fixing. If that's something you're either
unable or unwilling to do, for whatever reason, then D probably
isn't a good choice for you right now. And that's ok. We all have
our own goals and priorities, and no single programming language
is going to be a perfect fit for everybody.
