On Sunday, 16 July 2017 at 07:25:45 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
People have DEVELOPMENT needs, before LANGUAGE needs.
In its current state, D is already perfect for some
developments (high-performance computing and file processing,
etc), but for many COMMON "real world usages", IMHO it's still
lagging WAY behind many "inferior" languages in terms of easy
of use, and thus immediate usability...
Everything can be done in D with the right amount of effort,
but the more effort required, the more clever you need to
pickup this language.
And the less people you will convince to use it.
Sorry, but for many less-skilled programmers like me, that's
how things work.
Then maybe D is not the right language for you, at least not yet.
Any tech goes through several well-defined stages, as I've
talked about before and you can read about online:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/utmwiveailhkouaey...@forum.dlang.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle
There are two aspects to any tech, the fundamental design and how
it integrates with the rest of the world, ie the libraries and
ease of use that you miss. A couple of really smart people can
work on the fundamental design, but it takes a lot of people
working over years to add libraries and polish to a programming
language.
That's why D is only geared towards those niches you list and a
few others right now: it needs to prove itself there before
people will invest a bunch of time and money into making it work
for the rest of the "COMMON real word usages" you miss. It took
millions of dollars and years for Java or .Net to build up the
massive libraries and JIT/GC improvements that made them easier
for you to use now.
D is not at that stage for many uses yet, certainly not for
mobile, which I've been working on for years. D needs to prove
itself with startups like Weka and OSS projects like Tilix and
slowly get polished and many more libraries added. It is
happening, there's a lot of stuff on dub these days:
http://code.dlang.org
But if you can't wait till that's all done, you can either chip
in with writing libraries or polishing up the ease of use, or go
use something else till D's ready for you.
