Lutger wrote:
It's interesting why unittest (and assert) are such big success. My idea is that it's not in spite of, but because of their utter simplicity. I speculate that if it would have been different, for example if you would had to create a new file for a unittest, it would not have been used so much.
I tend to agree. I've found over and over, that if you drive things down to their simplest essence, they'll get wide adoption. If someone needs to read a manual with long lists of options, they'll pass it by.
For instance, look at the installer thing. I think that downloading a zip file, and unzipping it, is so trivial. Yet this seems to be a blocker for people using D, over and over I hear about how hard it is to install. I find this baffling. But yet, it's obviously an issue.
