On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 09:51:04AM +0000, Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> Just wanted to remind you that, D maybe isn't that bad.
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> Yes, D has it's flaws, true. But it's far from unfixable? Or is that what people believe?
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> Is D really that bad?

Nope.

D is my favorite language. Wouldn't settle for anything else.  Yeah, D has its ugly dark corners and pet peeves that make me cringe... but then again, every language has those, it's just a matter of whether the benefits outweigh the annoyances.  IMO, D's advantages FAR outweigh the dark corners.  I have decades of experience in C and C++, a smattering of Java and other languages, and I can say none of them even holds a candle to D.

(Although D has spoiled me so much I haven't actually bothered using C++ or Java for years now, maybe even decades, so this is probably outdated information. :-D  Well I did write some minimal Java in my Android project, but I wouldn't call that *using* Java, it's more like just lip service to ease some of the pains of working with Android NDK. Even that little made me wanna puke -- just WAY too much boilerplate, it's nigh unusable unless you use a high-powered, resource-hogging IDE (or a auto codegen utility, written in D :-P). I do actively use C for my day job, but the PTB are a conservative bunch and we haven't really moved beyond the 90's in terms of C standards, so that part is probably outdated too. Whatever.)

Don't listen to the naysayers, D is awesome.  If it wasn't, I wouldn't be here in the first place. *We* wouldn't be here.  Many of us came here because we're sick and tired of other languages' bogonities. D must have done *something* right that we're still here today.  Every language has flaws, and D is no exception.  But that doesn't make it any less awesome.  It still r0x my world, I don't care what other people say or think.


T

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:09:29PM +0000, ryuukk_ via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 14:03:52 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
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> > What would it take to drive you away?
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> > Apparently none of these things are actually deal breakers, even to you.
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> It does drive me away, [...]
> [...] i want D to grow, [...]

No contradiction here.  None at all.  Move along, nothing to see here.

;-)


T

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On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 17:36:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 09:51:04AM +0000, Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Nope.
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