On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:08:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 03:04:50 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
The biggest difference between the D community in general and
other communities is actually quite simple.
Experience.
Indeed! The world has never seen a more experienced collection
of freshmen language designers. Theory does not apply.
Rust and Go are doomed.
Now, now. It is true that bad and frustrating experience with
other languages drove me (and probably others) to D. D is open to
suggestions, while other languages still live by the "one size
fits all" mentality. std.allocator is a good example of trying to
offer a variety of different memory models. What's wrong with
that?
People here often request features you can only ask for after
years of programming experience. This shows that there is a lot
of experience in the D community. Without experience D wouldn't
be where it is, having only limited resources.
That's right. As mentioned we accept bugs, we accept issues.
Submit and accept, no regrets.
Discuss them at length and fix them when a good solution is
found.
A ground breaking GC will emerge from the synthesis of the
unsurpassable number of endless GC debates. That is the
sanctimony of meritocracy.
A non-breaking solution will eventually be found. Time is no
issue in such an important matter. We just wait and a solution
will emerge, through discussions based on pure experience.
Not only that but we look for problems to fix.
This is the mentality of a good software engineer. One who
doesn't care about their own pride or ego but genuinely wants
to make good code.
This community is the UNICEF of programming. We are all meek
and humble individuals, divine servants of humanity.
Just trying to create the best tool possible for our own daily
tasks.
People in these forums all express gratitude when they are on
the loosing end of a technical debate. Nobody go silent or
resort to rhetorical excesses. Ever. We are all grateful for
being proven wrong, because that is how we become better
programmers.
But we keep coming back. So it cannot be that bad ;)
In a lot of ways this makes us the best developers on the
planet. It would explain a lot, including how other language
communities snob us yet we look at them for ideas.
Indeed, we never snob anyone, and they all snob us. Especially
the ignorant C++ community that never mentions us.
Because this hurts some people. The D crowd doesn't snob other
languages, in fact, people here often point at features of other
languages saying "Da', can I have this, pleeeeeze?". All most of
us do is to point out the strengths of D when ever the occasion
arises, trying to convince people to at least give it a try. Of
course it can be annoying when D is snobbed at while its features
are being ripped.
Talking about UNICEF, feel free to be a humble servant of
humani-D. The more the merrier!
