On 27 September 2015 at 16:45, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 03:34:31 UTC, Manu wrote: >> >> On 24 September 2015 at 01:09, Nick Sabalausky via >>> >>> Popularity has no place in decision making here. >> >> >> Sadly, false. > > > As much as it would be nice to not have decisions based on popularity, we > _do_ want D to be popular regardless, and while we want to be technically > superior, we don't actually need to convince people on those grounds. We > just need to convince them. If that means convincing many of the better > programmers via technical merit and many of the rest via pure popularity, > then so be it. There's no reason why we can't succeed on both fronts, though > it's arguably easier to make headway based on technical merit, since that's > easier to control and doesn't require becoming popular first.
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