Re: Being Positive

2018-02-20 Thread Jimmy Jar via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 01:19:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 16:04:11 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: Psychotic rabbit disturbed by programming related video. In other news don't poke the rabbit. To keep positive mind you should try to increase your follow

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 16:04:11 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: Psychotic rabbit disturbed by programming related video. In other news don't poke the rabbit.

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 18:25:25 UTC, 9il wrote: Do we follow main initial promise to be better / to replace C/C++? The last one question is the most important. Instead of targeting a real market for as, which is C/C++, we are building a "trendy" language to compete with Python/Java/G

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 2/12/18 10:46 PM, jmh530 wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 03:15:44 UTC, bachmeier wrote: I don't see a negative trend. [snip] I don't know if there's a negative trend or not, but every 2 or 3 months there's inevitably a thread about things D needs to add or improve that tends to de

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 07:35:19 UTC, Dukc wrote: On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? Well, programmers are engineers, an

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread 9il via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? The reason is (as I see it) is very simple. People have/had a lot of expectations about the la

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 17:03:26 UTC, flamencofantasy wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:29:46 UTC, Seb wrote: On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: [...] Yeah, I think it's a different community. I'm not sure why this is the case, maybe becaus

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread flamencofantasy via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:29:46 UTC, Seb wrote: On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: [...] Yeah, I think it's a different community. I'm not sure why this is the case, maybe because Rust doesn't promise to be a great language and people suffer enoug

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust forum and so on. Do you think it wi

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 11:36:35 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 08:08:28 UTC, bauss wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:32:29 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: Personally, I found that youtube video (Life is better with Rust's community automation - YouTub

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread John Gabriele via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 03:40:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: {snip} I suspect that part of it is that a lot of folks seem to come to D looking for the perfect language after having be frustrated by another language like C++, and while D is a lot closer to that for many folks than other

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 14:17:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 2/12/18 11:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: A bunch of stuff I 100% agree with. Me too. So refreshing to read. Mike

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 2/12/18 11:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: A bunch of stuff I 100% agree with. Thanks. Let's keep the negativity coming, and we'll all be better for it ;) Problems don't get fixed if you ignore them or pretend they don't exist. It's part of a healthy debate. If you don't like the n

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? Here's an example from 2013, just a few months after I started using D. Andrei posted that Fac

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 09:46:14 UTC, Dave Jones wrote: Arguing, friction, grumbling, it's all a symptom of Ds open volunteer based development process IMO. It's also how democracy works. Walk into any parliament session, in any democracy, and you will see arguing, friction and grum

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 08:08:28 UTC, bauss wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:32:29 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: It is a human right..to complain ;-) Not to be that guy, but technically you have no rights in an online community. You have privileges. You may have the privile

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Dave Jones via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust forum and so on. Do you think it wi

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? That's because people love D so much they want it to become better.

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 07:47:39 UTC, JN wrote: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." Wasn't that from Bjarne Stroustrup?

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:32:29 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: It is a human right..to complain ;-) Not to be that guy, but technically you have no rights in an online community. You have privileges.

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread JN via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust forum and so on. Do you think it wi

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? Well, programmers are engineers, and engineers tend to focus on things that need improvement.

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 05:34:01 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: btw. Mozilla has long had an unusual interest in people specifically from the Oregon State University. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/browser-built-with-love-sweat-volunteers/ Emily Dunham (the one in that youtube video,

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d
armful part of all theses messages, apart from disgusting the more sensitive among us, is that I find people (say at this FOSDEM - btw great talk Kai) telling me that D is immature. These people read these threads. So they don't even try D. Being positive helps recruit people into trying things

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 05:10:29 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 04:29:44 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: Rust has pretty much gone on record as deliberately using social engineering to squelch all disagreement by way of drumming out any and all diss

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 04:29:44 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: Rust has pretty much gone on record as deliberately using social engineering to squelch all disagreement by way of drumming out any and all dissenters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIageYT0Vgg a "friend of

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 04:29:44 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: Rust has pretty much gone on record as deliberately using social engineering to squelch all disagreement by way of drumming out any and all dissenters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIageYT0Vgg Hey..that was

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 02/12/2018 06:54 PM, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? 1. Can't fix a problem without first identifying a problem. 2. "We're all entitled to our opinions" does NOT come w

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:29:46 UTC, Seb wrote: On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? I don't remember seeing so much negati

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 03:15:44 UTC, bachmeier wrote: I don't see a negative trend. [snip] I don't know if there's a negative trend or not, but every 2 or 3 months there's inevitably a thread about things D needs to add or improve that tends to devolve into complaints about the lang

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 03:15:44 bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote: > I don't see a negative trend. It's always been negative around > here, and I've never understood why. It's the best language I've > used by a significant margin. D is the inverse of the Lisp > community, which believes the

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust forum and so on. Do you think it wi

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust forum and so on. Yeah, I think it

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Do you think it will help in reminding people not to post any negative things? No. Everyone knows the current state of D and this can be improved with more volunteers. Even a small topic like some xyz library is not up

Being Positive

2018-02-12 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust forum and so on. Do you think it will help in reminding people not to post any negative things? It shouldn'