On Friday, 22 June 2018 at 14:45:46 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
Should I be looking more at the benefits of having D as a tool? It was a good choice for me since I know D so well (and other reasons at the time), but C# is a reasonable language in this space. I'm thinking, like should I go into how learning D wouldn't be too hard for new hire since it has similar syntax to C# and so on.
One strong argument to make is based on performance. Give them numbers about how fast your tool runs and make it efficient. The idea is that because the linting tool will be run for every incremental build a developer makes, slower running times are a barrier to productivity.
But once performance targets are defined, and if the company thinks that C# can also meet those targets, then really it's their call. Ultimately it is their company and their assets.
In such a case, I would generalize your tool for use outside of the specific context of your company, and make it the basis of an open source project.
