On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 05:52:13 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
What tools can D successfully replace? Give a focused answer to
that and you can improve on D to a level where it becomes
attractive.
But keep it real. Fear among programmers is not D's main issue.
That's just an excuse.
And just to avoid a misundertanding here:
1. That C# and Java programmers end up being disgruntled is not a
failure of the language, that is a failure of communicating that
D is a system level programming language. It is not a fear issue,
they just ended up in the wrong neighbourhood.
2. When people who are looking for a system level programming
language get disgruntled then you need to pay attention. It is
still not a fear issue, there are so few system level languages
to pick from that people looking for alternatives cannot afford
to be "picky".
D2 is pretty much C++ with a Boehm collector attached to it. So
to get traction D has to improve on that model significantly OR
change direction completely.
