On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 21:03:12 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
And sensible mercantile consideration of what might go wrong and what you are going to do if that happens - that's a very different thing from what Chris was speaking about. Because in enterprises it's often the case that social and group emotional factors are more influential day to day than rational calculation. (There is an extensive literature on this). Of course, everyone gives reasons for things - it's just that if you observe closely those aren't the real reasons (and the people themselves may be unaware of this).
Yep. What I was talking about was not the fear of a commercial failure because of having picked the wrong tool (management). I was talking about my impression that D might intimidate programmers/coders. One has to dedicate time to new (or at least different) concepts like ranges and templates, old "comfortable" concepts are questioned or no longer as relevant as people thought they were (e.g. OOP). On top of this, everything is still moving. And as if this wasn't enough to scare the sh*t out of people (tongue in cheek), the tools are so "basic" that your average Java/C# programmer who is used to the comfortable IDE world has to enter the dark realms of command line tools forged by Sauron.
Commercial risk is not that big a factor (Java was adopted by IBM very early), and there's always the option to interface to C, should D lack anything.
The only thing we can do is keep on keeping on (as Laeeth pointed out) and produce more and more quality stuff. Somebody has to do it. If we all had the same timid attitude towards adopting new technologies, D would no longer exist, nor would a whole bunch of other technologies.
