On Sunday, 10 March 2013 at 10:33:10 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
In order to survive, one must become necessary for others. In
case of D,
all it takes to become irreplaceable is to have a bunch of
libraries in D,
that have no alternatives in other languages. Perhaps the
uniqueness is not
in what those libraries would do, but in how would those
libraries do it. I
believe the revamping of D's compile-time reflection that
Andrei talked
about some time ago is extremely important, because that would
allow
writing truly irreplaceable libraries.
A good start is to support a particular industry that no one else
is currently catering to in enough detail. If we could figure out
who is using D commercially to try and figure out what is seen as
being the main strengths, then the language and its libraries
could be strengthen further in those areas.
I will suggest that a great way to get that information is
through a user survey, where users can specify what they like or
dislike, what their main use cases are, what industry they use D
in, and so forth.
--rt
