On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 16:07:26 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 15:57:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Huh? No, as long as D is not backed by some giant like Google
or Apple it has to do its own marketing and showcase its own
stuff where it can.
the key words are "where it can". rewriting already working
tools (perfectly working) in D is "marketing for the marketing
sake". if there are money to waste, an engineer can be hired to
rewrite such tools. otherwise, it is much wiser to reuse
existing ones.
Yes, no point in writing your own forum software. However, if you
need nginx to perform on a small scale site like dlang.org then
you basically say that the D http stack is not yet competitive
with C++.
Contrast that to:
- Vibe.d is so great that we don't need a front end to perform
well.
so they should pass-by. D is the language to build tools, not
some "batteries included" language. this is The Way to market
it, i believe.
Fair enough, maybe that is more honest, but it doesn't drive the
project forward to a situation where it can showcase
"download-compile-install" starting points.
And that is what most people want. Most people want to solve a
specific problem. If you have something they can make work right
away and then modify then you are more like to be adopted.
