On 2 June 2015 at 05:35, Israel via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:58:04 UTC, Joakim wrote: > > Im Curious, is the effort putting more focus towards iOS or Android? > > Also, it would probably help if the version numbers didnt increment so > slowly. > Maybe 2.10 for DDMD?
This is a good idea. It's subtle, but probably significant. My impression of others when discussing D with colleagues, is that it's almost entirely nothing more than a matter of perception. (...well, and the hard blockers I've mentioned elsewhere, but they don't often know about those, I keep that to myself ;) There's an important element of psychology in terms of presentation that we aren't quite getting right. I think the presentation needs to change such that the general impression move from an assorted collection of OSS community projects, to something more akin to 'a product'. With releases that are controlled, deliberate, and coordinated (between all the significant parts). Considering Andrei's comparison to Rust before; Rust does present itself as confident, deliberate, and unified. Whether this is true or not, that's the impression I have of Rust, for whatever reason. I'm not alone, my colleagues who have investigated it independently have come to the same conclusion. It's simply perception, but that's very powerful, and people seem to have more confidence in Rust at the moment. We need to make sure the public facing media makes the proper impression, and I think key to that is making sure all the fragments of the ecosystem are working properly together. I would say this is more important than language development for the moment. Package management (in one way or another) is probably a very important focus right now.
