On 05/13/2015 05:29 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:20:36 UTC, Bienlein wrote: >> "You are making a cool project and we'd like to contribute to it, but we >> don't know and neither feel like studying this silly D". >> >> This is indeed a problem for many newly created languages. Scala has >> somewhat managed to create its own eco system with Akka, Spark, Spray in a >> specialized area like concurrent programming and big data. Also because >> Scala has found some liking in academical circles (e.g. Spark, Scala STM). I >> don't know how things will look like for Kotlin. Maybe there will be a niche >> for Android development. For Groovy there is basically only Grails as a >> killer application. > > Giving how D is similar to C/C++ I am surprised that non-familiriarity with D > is a big problem.
I agree - I posted some code I was working on into IRC, in a channel with basically zero D programmers, and mentioned "How many lines are run at compile-time vs runtime?". People with no D experience got the answer right first try. D is extremely easy to pick up (at least the basics) for someone with C++ experience, in my opinion. -- Matt Soucy http://msoucy.me/
