On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 19:28:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 19:16:00 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
I take the TIOBE as good PR, because it always appearing on
Reddit and people talk about for good or worst.
Whenever D is making a marketing push you get newbies in the
forums complaining about lacking libraries, lacking IDE,
lacking tooling. Then they leave, most likely with a bad
impression, because they had higher expectations.
If people believe that D is as popular as Swift, which is the
current TIOBE ranking, they also expect the eco system of
Swift. Which D cannot deliver.
Yes, I am pessimistic when it comes to FUD, it leads to
resentment.
What the D community needs is users with realistic expectations
and goals.
None of those things happen without users, and being high on
tiobe gets users.
The D community is stretched incredibly thin already.
