On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 06:04:57 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
Very interesting post.
My bachelor's thesis was a expert system for stock trading
implemented with Borland C++ 1.0, and D would have been a good
fit as well if had been an option in 1989, so I understand why
you think that financial development will make D popular.
I don't know that I would say finance will make D popular but
it's one domain that I know well where I think it can be useful.
Popularity isn't only a good thing either.
I think the focus on Go, Rust etc as a competitive threat is
misplaced. If they do something well and it fits us we should
without shame copy it, but better. But just because they are the
focus of attention amongst some communities doesn't mean we
should otherwise worry about what they are doing.
But that's the exact opposite of what trending languages do at
the moment (Go, Kotlin, etc).
They care to solve the basic problems of the casual developer :
implementing desktop, mobile or web applications.
Why try to beat them at their own game, or even spend energy
wondering about it. The DNA of the community mostly isn't
interested in solving the problems of the casual developer in the
same way. So unless it changes then it's a tough game to expect
to beat them on criteria they set.
Looks at the compounded rate of growth of dmd daily downloads.
If it were a stock, I wouldn't be short it, because it's in an
uptrend and far from overbought. Many other contexts you would
even call that explosive growth.
Not the most interesting jobs maybe, but that's what pays the
bill of many of us, the "less skilled" developers who are not
engineers.
I guess you only need one job. And there is share of market and
share of mind. It's much easier for talented people to be
recognised as such in a smaller community than a vast one.
