On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 13:55:31 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 12:43:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
each project I
start I give some very hard thought about which development
environment I'm going to use, and D is often one of those
options. The likely future of D on the different platforms is
an important part of that assessment, hence 'predicting' the
future of D, hard and very unreliable though that is, is an
important element in some of my less trivial decisions.
Since you already know D you need to answer a different
question.
What's the chance the compiler will die on the relevant
horizon, and how bad will it be for me if that happens.
Personally I'm not worried. If D should disappear in a few
years, it wouldn't be the end of the world to port things. I
just don't think that's very likely.
Of course it depends on your context. The people who use D at
work seem to be more principals who have the right to take the
best decision as they see it then agents who must persuade
others who are the real decision-makers. That's a recipe for
quiet adoption that's dispersed across many industries
initially and for the early adopters of D being highly
interesting people. Since, as the Wharton professor, Adam
Grant observes, we are in an age where positive disruptors can
achieve a lot within an organisation, that's also rather
interesting.
A very interesting discussion... really.
Perceptions, expectations, prediction... an easy read I
suggest on the latest trends [1], if someone is interested...
BTW, Laeeth is right in the last paragraph two. I was one of
the 'principal' who took the decision to use D in production,
14 years ago, and he described the reasoning of that era very
well.
Today I'm still convinced that the adoption of D is a
competitive advantage for a company, I definitely have to work
to improve my bad temper (eheh) to persuade my actual CTO to
give it another change.
/Paolo (btw, I'm the CEO...)
Thanks for the colour, Paolo.
Yes - it's a competitive advantage, but opportunity often comes
dressed in work clothes. We're in an era when most people are
not used to discomfort and have an inordinate distaste for it.
If you're fine with that and make decisions as best you can based
on objective factors (objectivity being something quite different
from 'evidence-based' because of the drunk/lamppost issue) then
there is treasure everywhere (to steal Andrey's talk title).
Opportunities are abundant where people aren't looking because
they don't want to.
