On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:26:39 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
Lutger wrote:
It's interesting why unittest (and assert) are such big success. My
idea is that it's not in spite of, but because of their utter
simplicity. I speculate that if it would have been different, for
example if you would had to create a new file for a unittest, it would
not have been used so much.
I tend to agree. I've found over and over, that if you drive things down
to their simplest essence, they'll get wide adoption. If someone needs
to read a manual with long lists of options, they'll pass it by.
For instance, look at the installer thing. I think that downloading a
zip file, and unzipping it, is so trivial. Yet this seems to be a
blocker for people using D, over and over I hear about how hard it is to
install. I find this baffling. But yet, it's obviously an issue.
Downloading, unzipping (where?), setting up your path, marking the binary
as executable (on *nix).
Much easier to use the OS's installer and let the package tell me how to
set it up.
Getting the files and expanding them isn't the difficult part :)
-Steve
