On Wednesday, 8 September 2021 at 08:27:13 UTC, Tejas wrote:

Then the thing to do would be to open an issue in Bugzilla for an enhancement request and see what comes of it:

https://issues.dlang.org/

On Wednesday, 8 September 2021 at 07:51:29 UTC, drug wrote:

You're entirely right. The problem isn't the language at all. The problems are all the politic issues that exist. It has existed for D since early days, like how the community was split up with tango.

The language is fairly stable and can be used for almost anything, while library support isn't the greatest then it's not bad either.

However the politic issues are so terrible and while it has been worse then there's still so many improvements to be made.

However even with the improvements then it won't fix the past issues.

Some resolved political issues still remain outside of the community, because others still think they're relevant like people still thinking there are two standard libraries etc.

On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 08:46:48 UTC, Basile B. wrote:

import std.stdio;

struct S { int i; }

S _s;

S s (){return _s;}

void main()
{
    s().i = 42;
    writeln(_s.i == 42);
}

Output:
false

Wow, compiler help much appreciated

On Wednesday, 8 September 2021 at 08:32:01 UTC, bauss wrote:

Although I have known about D since ~2018, I only started actively visiting the forums and actually using it a little since June this year.

What political issues are you talking about?

On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 13:36:39 UTC, Tejas wrote:

import std.stdio;

struct S { int i; }

S _s;

S s (){return _s;}

void main()
{
    s().i = 42;
    writeln(_s.i == 42);
}

Output:
false

I see that the conversation has forked on the validity of this kind of code, so I've should have chosen a better example (set i storage to __gshared). The point was just to show that tempraries a created.

On Wednesday, 8 September 2021 at 12:12:57 UTC, Tejas wrote:

People disagreeing with the future of the language, its design, standard library and management in general.

There was a huge discussion recently due to some PR or something being reverted and people took sides on whether they agreed/disagreed with that.

Some contributors even left because of it.

And it's not something new, as it has happened many times before.

There were used to be a split about the standard library too, where there existed 2 "standard" libraries.

One official and then tango (which of course is somewhat discontinued and has been for years) - which separated the whole community into two groups, those who used tango and those who didn't and often code using phobos couldn't be used with code that used tango.

That's no longer an issue but you'll still once in a while hear people bring it up as if it's a current issue.

There are many more.

Personally I don't care much about all these issues but I've seen them hurt the community over all so many times.