On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 09:11:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
because Business Developers wants it that way. they are...
well... Doing Business, and they wants someone to maintain all
the libraries they are using. for free, of course. and what can
be better than to offload this burden to language developers?
... really? This is the attitude here.
almost each time we hear about "D should have XXX in standard
library", it comes either from Business Developer,
The reason why people prefer official supported library
functionality is because:
* Your guaranteed that this will have maintainers. Unlike
alternative unofficial solutions.
* Guaranteed for a official stable API that will be similar
across libraries. Cutting down on time for new developers to get
familiar with the language.
* Having a load of different Independent libraries that "do the
same but not exactly the same" is simply bad practice.
Case and point: https://code.dlang.org/search?q=mysql
No official library, some are not supported, some are duplicates
with minor changes, no official API or standard... can go on a
long time.
If your idea is that people need to sift past the junk each time
and hope that the library they pick is still supported in 5
years, your dead wrong. It does not work like that in any
business environment. If you want a language to be adopted beyond
hobbyist, you need to offer more then simply a language.
Languages are a dime a dozen, well supported languages with a
thriving eco-system that is a different market.
People seem to have it in their head that its a good thing to not
have a lot of officially supported libraries. Well, from a
business perspective it is simply not feasible to adopt a
language, when it only offers, quote: "10% improvement", and the
rest of the eco-system relies on those same (unpaid) people.
People who one day can simply drop all support on packages.
or from Business Developer in Disguise. 'cause they always want
someone to work for 'em for free.
I have no problem paying as do a lot of people but do you hand
over your money to projects where to attitude does not align with
yours? I put money in several projects only to see no good come
from it. I learn from my business mistakes.
Do i need a language that keeps pushing more advanced features
while introducing regressions all the time. Or do i prefer a
stable language with official supported libraries that is easy to
learn for new employees and has no baggage holding it back. Pick
one ... and guess what gets a language adopted by us.
I noticed after reading topics how there is a very clear group of
people, with a real motivation to maintain the status quo. They
have found their language and use any excuse to not gain a mass
market audience.
Community attitude is just as important as the language. As a
language D may been gaining exposure but if you dislike new
people coming here and pointing out major and minor issues, then
that exposure is useless and will only reinforce a negative image
for the language. No point in putting time feeding trolls, time
is money after all.
Zhù nǐ hǎo yùn! Wish you luck!
