On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 10:18:12 UTC, Kelly Sommers wrote:
The things I really want from D to really sway me would be the following (some already exist):1. Evolve the GC like Go has. 2. No overhead calling C libraries. 3. Easily composable libraries. 4. Good IDE support.
I agree. 1. takes surprisingly long. There is still no precise GC.2. and 3. are already there. Well, libraries are never perfect, of course.
4. is proceeding, but slowly. Afaik no core dev uses an IDE.