On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 13:08:25 UTC, Bo wrote:
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 03:36:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
But really who is selling D to anyone? We are very far from
that stage right now. Did someone sell D to Microsoft COM
team, Remedy or to Weka? Nope. People who had earned the
authority to decide became aware of the language end decided
to use it. And they did so because for them it solved their
particular problems better then anything else they could think
of.
The question one needs to ask is more: how long ago have those
developers decided to use D and why is the technology not more
widespread in those companies.
If D solved the issues in those companies, you expect to see a
increased switch to a language.
That conclusion relies on the assumption that programmers /
managers / tech leads / CTOs choose programming languages based
on technical merits alone. While there are certainly people who
do that, in my experience they are in a small minority.
There's inertia, tribalism, sunk cost fallacy, fear of the
unknown, fear of change, lack of wanting to invest time in a new
technology, "if it ain't broke don't fix it" (touted many a time
by people who either ignore security exploits or justify it
saying it's not the language's fault but bad programmers),
popularity, herd mentality, ...
Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of 10
programmers who have never written one and don't know anyone else
who has. I have; I failed.
Atila
And yet most of those companies use D in one project and it
stays in that one project. That means other developers do not
switch, management has no task to introduce it elsewhere and
the project is more or less supported by the developer that
pushed for the technology.
