On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 06:48:09 UTC, Chris Wright
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 03:21:03 +0000, Jerry wrote:
There's only so much time and money someone can give. It isn't
that appealing when virtually no other language out there
suffers from this problem cause they have an actual market
behind them.
Most languages have this problem. Most languages you actually
hear about don't, because the marketing follows the money, and
you hearing about a language follows the marketing.
D is unusual in how complete it's become without significant
corporate backing, and how popular it is despite lacking a
killer application.
Reminds me of markets. A stock that has obvious disadvantages
people will not stop talking about that keeps making new highs -
that's not a stock you want to be short.
