bearophile wrote:
Peter Alexander:
It's interesting that you've brought up the issue of the message being
sent out about D, because I feel it is exactly the opposite: it's far
too positive. Everyone seems to only talk about all the cool features in
D and seem to ignore all the issues that exist.
...
It's hard to quantify whether my post has had a negative or positive
impact on the language, but I believe honesty and openness are good
things. People coming anew to D shouldn't be misled into thinking that
it has no issues (as I was -- no one mentioned the implementation
issues). I believe a disappointed user is much worse than missed user.
I agree. Andrei (and others) were not listing the bad sides enough. A bit more
transparency is better even in discussions outside this newsgroup. It's
dangerous to give false hopes.
Bye,
bearophile
Completely agree. Right now, we don't *want* to attract anybody who
expects a finished product. We shouldn't advertise as if we do.
