On 12/29/14 10:58 AM, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 18:42:17 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 15:34:44 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
This is widely advertised statement I can't agree with. For me goal
is having working language that works. Getting users is indirect way
to achieve that by attracting more contributions but user just by
itself has not value to _me_.
An indirect benefit is still a benefit -- as I said in my previous
post, these things aren't a zero-sum game. Among other things, more
users means not only the likelihood of more contributions, but also
more bugs and points of failure identified, more experienced people to
use as a sounding board for ideas, more people to call on for help
when you have a problem, and so on.
It also means more people asking for stuff, then doing nothing to
contribute towards it, as though the D community is their slave labor.
If we, the D community, want D to succeed, we must change this attitude.
-- Andrei
