But lets be honest. If I was just interested to learn about
this "modern system programming language" that is C++ done
right, I would dismiss D very quickly. We need to get together
as a community and rethink your priorities, because with
problems like this we're making it very hard for newcomers to
trust in this very poorly adapted language.
Programming tools used by day to day programmers should be a
priority. Because everyone expects valgrind to work.
The standard library should be a priority. It's far from
complete (hopefully my company will contribute in this respect
in the near future).
The DUB package repository is horrible! More often than not,
the packages are so poorly written I end up just writing my own
implementation. Adding the ability to "rate" packages would go
a long way in improving the situation.
I understand hacking the frontend is way more interesting to
most of the community. But if we don't find the time to improve
on our visibility and language maturity, D will never get the
attention it deserves.
+1
