Re: Old but interesting link as to the low adoption reason for D

2018-02-13 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 09:11:44 UTC, ketmar wrote: because Business Developers wants it that way. they are... well... Doing Business, and they wants someone to maintain all the libraries they are using. for free, of course. and what can be better than to offload this burden to

Re: Old but interesting link as to the low adoption reason for D

2018-02-12 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 21:49:00 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: So what is your suggested course of action to correct this PR problem? I have provided several: * As stated the D its focusing the wrong group of developers * Too much old baggage and regressions because of it * Too much

Old but interesting link as to the low adoption reason for D

2018-02-12 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/4etdnc/free_pascal_is_very_super_mega_ultra_underrated/ Ignore the part about Pascal and read the Post by matthieum: I have, for my company, been part of a group in charge of exploring the criteria for the inclusion of new languages in

Re: Which language futures make D overcompicated?

2018-02-10 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 23:01:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 20:49:24 UTC, Meta wrote: was a complicated language, 99 of them would say no. If you ask 100 Python programmers, 99 would probably say yes. Yes, but objectively speaking I'd say modern Python

Re: Which language futures make D overcompicated?

2018-02-09 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
Here are a few more "basics" that are unneeded or confusing. Lets not even talk about the more advanced features like inout, ... /-/ * auto: Static typed language yet we fall back on the compiler to figure out what is being assigned. Can just as well have a interpreter language. It only

Re: Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

2018-02-09 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:56:16 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: You will get 9 packages listed. Which should I take? If you click on everyone, you will realize, that some of them are forks of other. And the version number of mysql-native at the top, just recently increased so strong,

Re: Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

2018-02-09 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 03:36:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: But really who is selling D to anyone? We are very far from that stage right now. Did someone sell D to Microsoft COM team, Remedy or to Weka? Nope. People who had earned the authority to decide became aware of the language

Re: [OT] Windows dying

2017-11-01 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
For a dying platform as so many advocate here, it seems to be doing fairly well. Maybe i am too old but the whole dying platform gig has been doing all the way to Windows ME and Vista and 8 and ... The reality is, for any user that wants to be productive Windows is hard to beat. The only

Re: Note from a donor

2017-10-27 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 05:20:05 UTC, codephantom wrote: That's it! I've had enough! 4 hours wasted! Please try getting some editors going for D on Windows like Visual Studio Code or Atom. That time wasted will skyrocket even more when you run into one of the many issues. Linux

Re: Note from a donor

2017-10-26 Thread Bo via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 12:36:40 UTC, jmh530 wrote: However, if you need Visual Studio installed, then that takes like a half an hour. And a gig of space, just because D needs a small part of it. That is why people do not want to install VS. Why install a competing language studio,