On 09/12/2011 07:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
If you were in my position, wouldn't you have posted that article?
I hope I wouldn't have published it, since I don't like misleading marketing.
BTW, apparently others comment on the news, too. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/objective-c-c-d-language-winners-in-programming-popularity-172587.
Then he doesn't know better about the problems with Tiobe. You do, or at least you should. D originally fell out of the top 20 because it plummeted after Tiobe actually started applying a tiny bit of care to their stats. You also acknowledged in the reddit thread that you thought Tiobe was meaningless -- that is, until D hit the front page. Smiley or not, I'll take that at face value given the context.
I find it odd that you hang out on this newsgroup although every indication of D's success infuriates you.
Wrong. I follow D because I find it an interesting language. Rather than being upset at a successful D, I've been hoping it would turn out great after all these years. Why else would I make a comment supporting bearophile about error-prone behavior like array initialization?
I criticize when I find things to critique, usually when they hit my pet peeve issues. Bullshit marketing happens to be one of them, and Tiobe is right up there.
