On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 00:46:00 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
Yes, how dare people see D marketed as a non-alpha language then realize the language is actually still in an alpha-state.
It's not in an alpha state. It's a grassroots language. There's no other way to describe it. Being community driven, it moves in the direction and at the pace that the community drives it. There's no large team, no governing body, no committee to drive development. Everyone using it needs to accept that any particular personal peeve they have with the language are only going to get changed in one of two ways: there's enough momentum behind it to cause it to percolate up to the top of the priority list for the core developers, or if you do it yourself. That's what it boils down to.
It's unreasonable to lambast the core developers as wanting to do nothing to improve the language. There are only so many hours in the day. Walter and Andrei care very much about this language. So do many others who are working to make it better, focusing on the areas that fit within their needs and their abilities. That's why it has come along as far as it has.
Debate about which issues should take priority are certainly needed, but these threads that degenerate into bashing the core developers, or calling D a "toy" language, serve no purpose other than to waste bandwidth and make it difficult to discuss what really matters.
