On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 11:44:59 UTC, Chris wrote:
Would it be possible to find out at DConf in Munich why exactly D is so popular in Germany (my impression) and in other countries of Europe (and that general post code) like France, Italy, GB, Romania and Russia etc.? I've always been intrigued by the fact that it originated in the US but that it's in "the old world" that a lot of enthusiasts (and contributors) are found. It's just because you would usually associate innovation with the "new world", but in this particular case D must have struck a chord with the old world. Is it marketing and economic / pragmatic factors that lead to poor adoption rates (and sometimes outright hostility) in the US. Maybe, but I think there's something in the engineering approach and the concepts that "talks" to us in the "old world". I think this is an interesting topic as regards both culture and technology. Any technology is embedded in and the product of a certain culture / way of thinking - and D seems to be a special case. Hint: there's a Ph.D. in it ;)
Well, Algol, Pascal, Oberon, Component Pascal, VHDL, Ada are all examples of programming languages successfully used in Europe, while having adoption issues on US.
Even Delphi is still having regular conferences and magazine articles here in Germany.
Maybe we care more about enforced code quality? :)
