hi, thank you all for your answers. i think your are right with look for the severity of bugs. for my superiors however the thing is different. they just see a huge amount of bugs, missing gui libraries, missing database libraries and nothing close to anything that m$ offers in the way of development. than there are 2 libraries, one with no collections and no way they seem to come together. There is no advertising (such as go language) and seemingly slow updates (bug fixes). and for me - shit if this doesnt change somehow to the better, i end up doing the next tool/project in delphi instead of D2. and that sucks, since i at least got them to think about D.
dsimcha Wrote: > == Quote from BCS (n...@anon.com)'s article > > Hello l8night, > > > Too many bugs - no way my superiors allow some program with that bug > > > list and the open date for version 2. worst is the slow bugfixes. > > > > > Check me on this but there may be more know bugs in things like FireFox then > > in DMD. The length of the bug list in and of its self say almost nothing > > about a program. (OTOH it makes a handy metric for people who don't know > > that.) > > To answer your original question; look at the change log to get an idea > > about > > how fast versions come out. "Within a month or so" would be a good guess > > for minor versions. If your talking about V3, expect a few years. > > What's really important is how many *severe* bugs there are, i.e. bugs that > really > have a major effect on the usability of the language. There are a few > features, > such as array ops and alias this, where DMD is buggy enough that these > features > are practically useless. On the other hand, I don't get too mad about this > because these are features that most other languages just plain don't have, > and > the situation is continually and rapidly improving (thanks to Walter and Don). > Even if the *total* bug count is going up, IMHO the *severe* bug count is > going down.
