On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 02:20:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei posted this on another thread. I felt it deserved its
own thread. It's very important.
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I go to conferences. Train and consult at large companies.
Dozens every year, cumulatively thousands of people. I talk
about D and ask people what it would take for them to use the
language. Invariably I hear a surprisingly small number of
reasons:
* The garbage collector eliminates probably 60% of potential
users right off.
* Tooling is immature and of poorer quality compared to the
competition.
* Safety has holes and bugs.
* Hiring people who know D is a problem.
* Documentation and tutorials are weak.
* There's no web services framework (by this time many folks
know of D, but of those a shockingly small fraction has even
heard of vibe.d). I have strongly argued with Sönke to bundle
vibe.d with dmd over one year ago, and also in this forum.
There wasn't enough interest.
* (On Windows) if it doesn't have a compelling Visual Studio
plugin, it doesn't exist.
* Let's wait for the "herd effect" (corporate support) to start.
* Not enough advantages over the competition to make up for the
weaknesses above.
Tutorial, tutorials, tutorials ....
Serach youtube for D tutorials and you will find none that is
helpful to many people. Check rust tutorials, yeah ....
JavaScript tutorials, abundance. Go tutorials, plenty..... Java
tutorials, yeah.
Clearly there seem to be a problem with tutorials.
