On Saturday, 11 October 2014 at 04:11:30 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 02:38:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Reddit users are not the ones who invest into this language. If
this attitude won't change it is only a matter of time until
you start losing existing corporate users deciding to go with
other language or a fork instead (likely latter).
Sadly, +1
I am very serious. Being a D user pretty much by definition
implies someone willing to risk and experiment with programming
tools to get a business edge. If costs of maintaing own fork
become lower than regular losses from maintenance overhead from
language quirks it becomes simple pragmatical solution. There
is nothing personal about it.
Consistency and being robust in preventing programmer mistakes
is single most important feature in the long term. @nogc, C++
support, any declared feature - it all means nothing with a
simple necessity to not waste money fighting the language.
In that sense proposed change is _very_ beneficial in ROI
terms. It forces trivial code base adjustment that results in
preventing very common mistake rarely obvious for a newbies.
This means a very real money gains in terms of training and
daily mantenance overhead. Something I don't care much in a
personal projects but will damn appreciate as one caring for
success of my employer.
This endless search for the ideal syntax is consuming our time
while we aren't working on issues that matter. (And this
change will consume users' time, too, not just ours.)
Hardly anything matters more than that. Issues like that
consume our time continiously for years, accumulating in wasted
days weeks of worker time. Compared with time needed to adjust
even several MLOC project gain is clear.
#pleasebreakourcode
+1 over all
Plus, I would not spend anymore one world in arguing against the
reddit argumentation: it's really too much for me.
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/Paolo
