On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 09:51:19 UTC, Manu wrote:
Are we making a tool for professional programmers, or is this
community an intellectual hobby that attracts language nerds?
We need
to learn how to impress well on working professionals, in the
few
moments that we get to do so; typically just a couple of
minutes.
Professional programmers pay for their tools, is anybody here
paying? D is not going to have the polish to attract them
because it's a small OSS project, without the funding llvm/clang
gets from Apple or all the consulting/hardware companies who chip
in to gcc.
I'd advise to go the Facebook route and try to get D used for
some dev tools here and there, especially on the server, like
Warp. Being easy for desktop devs is never going to happen
without some company like Apple putting more polish on the tools
and building an IDE around it, like they once did around gcc and
now do around clang/llvm. You're wasting your time if you think
you're going to get that from an OSS project that has no
associated business model, like llvm/clang/Xcode does.
