On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 16:41:04 UTC, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Sat, 2014-12-27 at 15:33 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via
Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[…lots of agreed uncontentious stuff :-) …]
You write as if Christensen's book "The Innovator's Dilemma"
had never been written, and nor had it been a standard
textbook in business schools for some years. You may have
good arguments as to why he is wrong, or why it doesn't apply
to D, but you haven't set them out, as far as I am aware.
In the post-production world as I know it (Nuke, etc.) The
C++/Python
combination has never failed to be adequate to the innovation
demanded
by film makers. In the image processing world the C++/Lua
combination
has never failed to adapt to the innovation needed by photograph
tinkerers. My point was really that the customers have never
found an
innovative need that the extant platforms couldn't provide. I
felt this
was somewhat different to the Christensen argument. On the
other hand, I
may have missed the point…
No matter how plugged in a person may be, it is impossible to be
aware of everything that is going on, especially in exactly the
kind of domains Christensen talks about - ones that aren't by any
standard important in a spot sense to the bigger picture, but
that critically provide a quiet relatively uncontested niche for
the seeds of something to unfold until it is ready to break out
into the broader world.
So I think the point is that one shouldn't be bothered one jot by
the disinclination of the people you know to want to use D,
particularly since you are so plugged in to all these other
worlds (and being an insider in a sense that matters today has an
opportunity cost because it means one is not spending time and
attention speaking to non insiders as much at that instant). New
growth will come from the fringes.
I think one should be very worried if the Adam Ruppe of the world
would start to say D sucks - nice idea, but just not expressive
enough for me, and I am switching back to Ruby and Python.
Because that would indicate a loss of ground in the home niche.
But somehow I don't think so...! And meantime quietly things
continue to develop.
What matters is not the challenges one faces, but how one deals
with them. An outpouring of frustration in recent days, and the
result is we are going to get better docs, better examples, and
who knows what else. That's a sign of health.
Will post code I have in a few days.
Laeeth.
