On Friday, 15 September 2023 at 21:49:17 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
Ikey seems to still want to use D, so the main driving factor
is the contributors, i wonder what are the exact reasons,
pseudo memory safety can't be the only reason
I would guess that the following is the bigger problem:
"we don't quite have the resources to also be an upstream for the
numerous D packages we'd need to create and maintain to get our
works over the finish line."
This has long been a chicken-egg problem for D. We need more
packages to attract more users, but we need more users building
packages before we can attract more users.
DIP1000 is also a bit of marketing problem. We kinda-sorta
promise that someday you'll be able to build memory safe programs
without a GC. We need to either push through and get it done, or
admit we're not actually going to get there and cut it.
I know there are ref-counted languages so theoretically it should
be workable, but the in a language as complex as D there may be
dragons on the edges. In any case, we should not be marketing
something we can't actually do.
