On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 16:19:25 UTC, c0de517e wrote:
But as I wrote I doubt that people will think at a point that yes, now D is 100% a better version of C++/Java/younameit, let's switch. I don't think it's how things go, I think successful languages find one thing a community really can't live without and get adopted there and from there expand. E.G. JavaScript is horribly broken, but some people really needed to be able to put code client-side on web pages, so now JS is everywhere...
I think this is actually a flawed mentality that causes a lot of long-term problems to all programmers. By resisting to switch to languages simply because those are good we inevitably get to the point of switching because it is forced by some corporation that has bucks to create an intrusive ecosystem. And despite the fact language itself can be horrible no choice remains by then.
