On 11/27/10 15:22 CST, bearophobic wrote:
BLS Wrote:
On 27/11/2010 04:27, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/c-s-greatest-mistakes
Andrei
Frankly said, I am a bit nagged by your overoptimistic D view.
From my point of view it is opportune to encourage people to use D2 for
real world applications. We (our company) having a 20K+
customer base are not able (and willing) to use D instead of C#, except
for tiny in-house projects. why> database, gui, xml, just to name the
top 3 issues.
So .. What about an "where C# shines and D sucks" article. Let us start
with LINQ in D, or do you prefer to talk about phobos collections ?
Bjoern
ps don;t get me wrong. I like D.
Critical articles of D damage our reputation. The internet archives and caches store all
damaging content. Would be better if all fans of D modified their earlier critical public
posts when the features have been fixed to minimize the damage. Development discussion
board (bugzilla) should be totally private to avoid bad FUD from spreading elsewhere. We
could make the system generate unique URL ids for all links to reveal the identity of
those who spread FUD about D. Walter Bright could filter the archives by grepping away
"D sucks" news articles. We should only announce good news, nothing bad. This
helps get better impression and more participants in development and avoid politics. This
way the features you want get fixed faster.
Bye,
bearophobic
That would be exaggerated, by a lot. I'm not even sure whether you're
being ironic.
Anyway, by and large, if the likes of Walter, Don, Sean, and some other
contributors including myself weren't the nuts who believe in this
language, something would be wrong.
Clearly D's perception has a trailing edge of instability and political
strife. Perception is a slow moving quantity so I'm patient about
perception getting better while of course we work hard on improving things.
Bjoern, just like you, I find the notion of compiler plugins very
attractive but I have to say that we have more pressing concerns at this
time. We can't spread ourselves all too thin.
Andrei
