Re: D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 28 November 2018 at 12:48:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
wrote:
I think that there are different strategies - decent appeal to 
a broad market and having a very high appeal to a small market 
(but there has better be something good about your potential 
customer base ie 'D, if you find VBA too difficult' is probably 
not a good strategy!).  And you probably don't get to pick 
which situation you are in, and then one had better realise it 
and play the game you're in.  The particular kind of market 
will shape what works - in my business you approach a retail 
client base differently from regular institutional investors 
and then the worlds' largest pools of money involved something 
else again.

D isn't really marketed and it's definitely not sold.  That's 
an implicit strategy in itself.

But one doesn't decide to have no strategy (at least if they any 
common sense!), one simply has no strategy. Unfortunately I think 
D falls into the latter, certainly not more than "Build it and 
they will come", irrespective of it effectiveness.

Actually no less than 3 programmer friends came to (I'm the 
weirdo-using-D and people are _always_ in disbelief and invent 
all sorts of reasons not to try) saying they saw an article on 
D on HN, with "D compilation is slow", and on further 
examination they didn't read or at best the first paragraph. 
But they did remember the title. They may rationally think 
their opinion of D hasn't changed: aren't we highly capable 
people?

I hope so!

It doesn't matter what most people think.  It matters what 
people who are on the fence or using D already a bit think.  Or 
people who have a lot of problems to which D is in part a 
solution only they didn't know about or think of D yet.

Then we should try to subtly (for some value of subtlety) make 
ourselves noticed.