On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 15:31:35 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote:
For years, i was travelling along Golang, Rust, Perl, Ruby,
Python, PHP, JScript, JVM Languages.
Lastly Crystal Lang and Nimrod, Julia, Haskell, Swift and many
more that i can't remember.
I'm 24 years old, my first lang was PHP and VBasic then C,C++
and i first heard about D after 2005 when i was 14-15 years old.
I always ignored D, i prejudiced that D failed, because nobody
were talking about it. I decided to check it yesterday, it has
excellent documentation, i almost covered all aspects. I think
D is much better than the most of the other popular langs. It's
clear as JScript, Swift, Julia and PHP, also it's capable
enough as C,C++. I think D deserves a bigger community.
Why people need NodeJS, Typescript etc, when there is already
better looking lang?
Everyone talking about how ugly is Golang. So why people are
going on it? Performance concerns? Why languages that are not
backed up by huge companies are looking like they failed?
Dear Emre,
we have had such threads in the past and experience shows that
there will be a huge non-productive debate about it. I think all
the people here agree that "D deserves a bigger community", but
everyone has a different view on how to achieve that.
My personal opinion is that we all can do a tiny contribution to
make D more popular.
For example you should start actively promoting D at your
university, workplace and among friends and maybe you can even
start a local Meetup or developer group.
Of course, the online pedant is actively complaining on a
discussion, site, ... if D is not listed or mentioned in a bad
light.
If you have more time, doing great projects or libraries in D
will help it's adaption too ;-)
In any case I highly encourage you to have a look at Walter and
Andrei's Action List and contribute to it. You know, writing a
unittest for a non-covered line in Phobos takes around the time
to post here, but it's a helpful contribution!
https://wiki.dlang.org/Wish_list
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H2_(Draft)
What I was trying to say, we shouldn't waste time arguing about
whether D is awesome, but make it even more awesome ;-)
