On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 20:57:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:27:03PM +0100, qznc wrote:
I read an interesting article [0] with a weird title. It got me
thinking about Ds marketing [1]. Are we too focused on the C++
programmers? Most of them are very unlikely to switch. In
comparison, D should be much easier to sell to people, who are
already considering Go/Scala/Clojure/Node.js/etc. I
restructured [2]
the tutorial to target them more specifically.
[0]
http://braythwayt.com/2013/11/27/herd-thither-me-hither.html#revised
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6814922
[2] http://qznc.github.io/d-tut/basics.html
Under the section "For Go Programmers", the wording of the 2nd
paragraph
is a bit unfortunate:
Why would you prefer D? D supports generic programming, which
means less code and type safety. ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That could be misinterpreted to mean "less code and less type
safety".
(I know it sounds silly, but you never know... first
impressions can
mean a lot to a newcomer.) Maybe a better wording might be:
"... less code and better type safety." ?
I believe I had written "better" at some point, but was not happy
with it.
How can type safety be "better"? Type safety is binary. A type
cannot be 50% safe. I changed it to "more type safety", in the
sense that you need less casts. Short form of "more pervasive
type safety". More suggestions welcome.
Thanks for the feedback :)
