Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Of course, projects like QtD suffer from the same sort of problem as a compiler does in that it's not necessarily very useful until it's complete. Lots of people may be interested in using QtD, but if it's not at least close to done, it's not going to be useable enough to use in any major project, so people won't use, they won't report bugs on it, and the won't give any kind of feedback on the project. So, the poor QtD people then have to get a _lot_ of code done before they see any kind of positive feedback from the community, and when they _do_ start getting feedback, much of it is likely to be negative because feature X hasn't been implemented yet or feature Y is buggy. A lot of people have given up on D for similar reasons. Hopefully enough of the problems that they were having with dmd get fixed soon enough that they're able to actually continue working on the project without getting too frustrated over it.
Things sure have changed. Back in the 80's, people were able to get real projects done with absolutely *terrible* compilers. Compilers have steadily gotten better, and so have expectations.
