On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 11:59:34 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
As D continues to grow, there will be messages like this posted
more frequently. Imagine that you work at a large company and
are considering adopting D so you decide to check out the forum.
Ruby talk in the early days went through a fairly painful phase
like this..... attracting trolls like flies.
Oh gawd: Remember that one guy who analysed each language by a
long long list of somewhat odd criteria and demanded all
deficiencies be remedied...?
Fortunately the overwhelming niceness of the community prevailed.
I do think liberal application of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disemvoweling of any personal
attacks and/or nastiness would rapidly starve these threads of
oxygen.
