On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 20:53:12 UTC, Israel wrote:
On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 20:05:14 UTC, wobbles wrote:
So, I did a presentation to about 10 colleagues on a tool I
wrote to aid in automated testing.
Of the 10 (all of us testers by the way, not programmers) 9
had never seen the language before, 4 were quite interested in
the language after - 2 of which came to me after looking to
get more info on how you could do this and that in D, with the
intention to go home to install dmd tonight.
Most importantly, my manager seemed ultra impressed with it
too!
So, yeah, very positive experience with the language, thought
I'd share! :)
In what professional field was this automated tool use in?
Would be nice to know.
Were those testers familiar with programming at all?
Our team was tasked with creating a nice CLI installer for our
product, as we've moved to support headless-servers (so no GUI
based installer).
Testing this was a total PITA as it prompted you for info and you
had to babysit it. So, dexpect was made.
http://code.dlang.org/packages/dexpect
Yeah, they would all be familiar with coding in Java/C# to a
university level.
The 2 whom were most interested in the language were the two whom
do the most coding outside work.
The rest were all... meh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
