On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 02:31:50 UTC, Yaser wrote:
That's the attitude, but do you think you can rewrite 10+ years * X man hours of software by yourself
It doesn't actually take that long to write useful programs. (and btw, I've been writing D for 8+ years already, including a lot of support libs for my programs over that time.)
Moreover, and this is really important, D can already interact the majority of existing software out there. For example, when I needed crypto functions in D, I didn't rewrite it. I just copy/pasted a few function prototypes from a C library and called them.
When I needed to access a mysql database, I didn't rewrite the database. I didn't even implement the communication protocol (though that isn't really *that* hard either), I just called the official mysql C functions.
Those alone are enough to start doing real work after just a few hours of setup, and you can build up the rest from there as needed.
IMO part of fully investing in something is spending the time to adapt what it has to your needs and filling in the rest of the gaps as more needs come up.
