[h3r3tic]

I admit that I went a bit overboard with the complaints about users, as seen in the out of context quote ;) This was mostly to accentuate that the few folks doing anything about D were (and still are) being ignored or actively bashed by the people in charge.

[gaius]

Regardless of any technical issues, that cultural issue would be enough to put me off. Sometimes it is the case that the language's maker's interests diverge from that of its users (e.g. OCaml is developed by language researchers without direct commercial interests) but it's rare to see them poisoning their own ecosystem.