On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 19:27:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 18:58:31 UTC, kinke wrote:
People need to eventually understand that all the energy
wasted for complaining about D/the community/whatever would be
so much more valuable if put into contributions.
Value is relative. So, if you don't use a tool in production
why would you derive more value value from "improving" on the
tool rather than analysing it to figure out
why/why-not/how/how-not etc? Gaining insight might actually be
more valuable…
Well, D now have a Improvement Proposal system (DIP), the actual
visibility of this process can surely improve
I recommend looking at Tcl's TIP system, for inspiration
In my opinion an Improvement Proposal system is a lot better than
a roadmap, because you can very clearly see, what the community
is talking about, which improvements have implementations, which
are just ideas, which are approved which are not, some IP entries
takes years to implement
I think as the DIP system matures, it will help D a lot
And dont worry about D, its been around for 16-17 years now, it
may never be as big as Python, Ruby or Go
But what is more important that it continues to be developed and
improved and ... used
Many languages have small communities and will continue to ..
such as Haskell, Idris, OCaml, F#, Clojure, Lisp , Elm ..
As long as D have a solid, bug free implementation, you have
nothing to worry about .. and it doesnt have to be your only
language .. honestly it should, now one language should be your
only language, I would argue any developer can master 3 to 5
languages at any time ... try to pick ones that dont overlap much
Python, SQl, R, .. D, Dart
