On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 12:26:02 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
Also as an FYI, Rust has had significant marketing effort put
into it. Consider its home page, it tells a story to get you
into developing code fast. D's doesn't. It is much better and I
think it might be time to have a complete rethink of D's
because the last redesign wasn't all that different to what it
was prior.
I've made this comparison many times before, but I'll do it
again...
Look at what Rust offers as documentation for Cargo:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/index.html
This is what you get with Dub:
https://dub.pm/getting_started
One is professional documentation, the other was something hacked
together by a sixth grader over the weekend. The Dub
documentation is good through the part demonstrating `dub init`,
then it falls apart. It talks about two configuration file
formats - not one, but two ("use whichever you prefer") and I
have no idea there is even a discussion of configuration file
formats at that point. Then there's a link to this word dump
https://dub.pm/package-format-json.html.
Noticeably absent: how I'm supposed to *use* Dub. Where do I put
my source files? How do I add dependencies? Have you ever heard
of an example?
Then a little below that is a link to this page:
https://dub.pm/publish.html. I wonder what that is for. Can't
make heads or tails out of that.
This is *introduction to the language*. If someone sees that and
doesn't run away, there's something wrong. I most definitely
would have gone with Rust if it had been usable when I started
using D. The Dub documentation makes it really hard to bring in
users - and makes Rust look like a sane language in comparison.
