On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 12:03:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I'd appreciate a list of bugzilla issues you regard as critical to your operations.
Sorry to weasle in, but https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2043 Sorry for childish behaviour in bugzilla (my last comment), but this bug makes me radiate in gamma-rays, because the current D behaviour is stupid and invalid, the workarounds (hacks) are incredibly ugly, and, on top of that, the bug is 10 years old. There are also tons of other bugs, inconsistencies etc. that I stumble upon regularly, they all were in bugzilla long before my "discoveries".
Ok, let me be brutally honest. These types of things really piss me off in D. IMHO top-tier devs are not focused on really important things. For me, a long-term D user, proper closures are much more relevant than D/C++ Kama Sutra. I don't have any C++ code and I don't intend to write any. I want to and do write D code and I want it to work *at least* correctly. But Walter, our compiler-fu black belt master (not making fun of him, I really respect his expertise), is more concerned about "poor" C++ users (which have all the luxuries) than about peasants like me with their puny #2043's, which he could solve by a single roundhouse kick (and maybe a restomp of the groin).
But I get it, it's a community-driven project, so "if you want it, DIY or get lost". I choose the latter, because my compiler-fu is rather weak, if exists at all. I still love D, but more like a good book, than a reliable tool. It's funny and sad at the same time, that I regularly find nightly Rust more reliable than stable D. So the obvious move for me is to stop arguing with the Party and simply choose other party that better represents and addresses my needs.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not ditching or D or saying it's crap, I'm still using it from time to time, but I will likely not choose it for any "serious" project (even hobby). Just tired of stomping on all the occasional caltrops, which are well-known, marked on the maps, but not being removed because children starve in Africa.
