On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 11:16:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/19/2014 2:47 AM, Sergei Nosov wrote:
The probable solution to this is to attract some "good"
programmers to point out
and work on the aforementioned issues - site, documentation,
tooling, etc. But
I'm not sure it's possible to do this for D with volunteer
efforts.
Sure it's possible - but the issues have to be specific. "Need
more examples", for example (!), is nice but not helpful to
anyone trying to improve the documentation. Saying "I need an
example for std.foo.bar()" is an actionable item.
I'm afraid, the answer to this specific question is - "Every
function needs an example". Consider, e.g.
http://en.cppreference.com/w/ or
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ It's hard to find a function
that doesn't have a usage example.
Granted, the mentioned references are most likely volunteer
effort (are they?). But it took C++ something like 20 years and a
wide corporate adoption for that to happen.
I guess, it took less time for other languages, like Python or
Ruby, but that's, probably, because those languages looked really
interesting and fun at their times. So they attracted a lot of
"good" programmers.
D poses itself as a more serious language (at least it's how it
looks like). And, probably, nobody will say that it's bad. But,
as a consequence, it makes it less attractive to "good"
programmers. Especially now, when there's lot of successful "toy"
languages. D is not "flashy" enough these days.
