Le 08/01/2012 08:47, Mike Parker a écrit : > On 1/8/2012 3:57 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> On Saturday, January 07, 2012 22:19:53 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> Here's an interesting discussion that may reflect the perceptions and >>> misperceptions about D within the larger community. >>> >>> http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/58832/ >> >> Not exactly the most informed discussion. But I would expect that some >> of the >> misinformation is fairly typical. I'd say that a lot of what people >> think or >> know about D is from a couple of years ago (if not farther back) and/or >> derived from the opinions of others rather than real experience. And an >> initial bad experience (as has happened far too often, as we've seen with >> newbies reactions to stuff not working just around here, let alone in >> the D >> community as a whole) can definitely lead to negative and/or misinformed >> beliefs, which then spread to others outside the D comunity when D is >> brought >> up. >> >> I'm not sure what we can do about that other than really improving >> what we >> have to offer, and while we still have plenty to do, we've definitely >> been >> making solid improvements. >> >> - Jonathan M Davis > > Unfortunately, there's nothing anyone really can do about it (and I'm > not actually directing this post at you, Jonathan, just preaching in > general). Java, for example, *still* suffers from the reputation it > gained back in the late 90's. You have companies like Sony running > successful online games with both the client and the server developed in > Java, while around the net people are swearing up and down that it's too > slow for games. There are issues with Java, sure, but modern JVM > performance is perfectly acceptable (and then some) for a significant > number of use cases. >
It hasn't prevented Java from being extremely successful in its own area.
