Andrei posted this on another thread. I felt it deserved its own thread. It's
very important.
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I go to conferences. Train and consult at large companies. Dozens every year,
cumulatively thousands of people. I talk about D and ask people what it would
take for them to use the language. Invariably I hear a surprisingly small number
of reasons:
* The garbage collector eliminates probably 60% of potential users right off.
* Tooling is immature and of poorer quality compared to the competition.
* Safety has holes and bugs.
* Hiring people who know D is a problem.
* Documentation and tutorials are weak.
* There's no web services framework (by this time many folks know of D, but of
those a shockingly small fraction has even heard of vibe.d). I have strongly
argued with Sönke to bundle vibe.d with dmd over one year ago, and also in this
forum. There wasn't enough interest.
* (On Windows) if it doesn't have a compelling Visual Studio plugin, it doesn't
exist.
* Let's wait for the "herd effect" (corporate support) to start.
* Not enough advantages over the competition to make up for the weaknesses
above.
