On 11/18/11 1:15 PM, Bane wrote:
<rant> As a language claiming for itself it was created out of
practical needs of programmers I must say D fails on that test (both
compilers and D website). It is not user friendly. It is user
hostile, for simplest and most common tasks. Especially for newbie
programmers.
It was like that 4 years ago when I first saw it, and it is much
like that now.
Is that the language, compiler, environment, or website? I got a bit
confused.
You people should really hire some non-programmers with documenting
skill and knack for KISS principle to make D website and
documentation. It is obvious that Walter, Andrei and the rest of
core people are highly skilled in their field of work, but not
interested, available or competent to present D complexity in
simple, right-to-the point way.
Right now D is pushed forward by volunteer work. Indeed it would be
great if more articles and tutorials were available.
I guess it is so much more fun to add new features and optimize code
than to organize and present all the documentation the way it can be
useful.
Fun doesn't have a lot to do with it.
And come on, BUD like feature is first useful thing compilers are
lacking. Talking about practical need. </rant>
Agreed. To add to that, I am a bit worried that the most worked-on build
management tool uses D1 and Ruby.
Thanks,
Andrei
