On 24/12/2014 8:54 a.m., "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com>" wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 19:14:02 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
and so D. and i still has to learn libraries for all that. yet people
talking Go being magic bullet: just use concurency and that's all!
nope. that's not all. that's not even the biggest part.
Library support is really important when doing web servers and
integration with existing systems and workflows. This is not an area
where D will be able to compete anytime soon, it is a crowded space:
Java, Python, Ruby, Php, node.js and eventually Go. I have to connect to
Google infrastructure, to legacy databases like Pervasive, parse Excel
files, add encryption cross platform etc... Every other project might
need a new library if you are to integrate with existing solutions, so
there is really no end to what you need to support...
Reality check on stuff that could be relevant for a server:
https://github.com/trending?l=go&since=monthly
4943 stars for Go
2947 stars for Rocket
1029 stars for Docker
747 stars for ssh-chat
622 stars for Kubernetes
672 stars for Jason
672 stars for aws-go
594 stars for bone
405 stars for influxdb
364 stars for etcd
356 stars for surgemq
246 stars for kite
https://github.com/trending?l=d&since=monthly
28 stars for vibe.d
10 stars for phobos
6 stars for druntime
6 stars for libasync
5 stars for arsd
That's a wipe out...
1. take gw-basic.
2. take Google.
3. let Google to throw money into gw-basic hype.
4. people start writing alot of software in gw-basic.
there is no direct corellation between "being good in technical sense"
and "being successfull". but there is such corellation between
"advertising by Big Player" and "being successfull".
There is a strong correlation between not having a stable release and
getting less attention from people who write libraries and frameworks
for commercial use.
Besides, Basic got traction at a time where people charged for good
languages, it was available for free and was not too demanding on
resources so it was built into the ROM on basically all home computers
in the 80s. That's how Basic got big.
Lets not forget things like barcode generators, qrcode and pdf editor.
People have a tendency to like having those things for web services...
Unfortunately they have a tendency to have a requirement to have things
such as a image library already. Which we also have a bad tendency to
not standardized in one library.
