On 23/09/2018 2:31 AM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 13:25:27 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
Then D isn't the right choice for you.
I think it makes for a better community if we can be more welcoming,
helpful a gracious instead of responding to criticism this way. This is
someone who saw enough potential with D to end up on the forums but had
some gripes with it, after all who doesn't? I'm glad he took the
initiative to provide us with good feedback, and he's not the first to
take issue with the inconsistent '@' attribute syntax. I'm sure
everyone can agree this inconsistency is less than ideal but that
doesn't mean D isn't right for them and we should respond this feedback
like this with thanks rather than dismissal.
It's much better for the language and for the person looking into a
technology to be open to saying that it isn't the right tool for the job
after some discussion which has taken place.
I would much rather stop people looking instead of trying to impose
changes on us that are not likely to happen in any acceptable time span.
Let alone at all. At least then, they can look back and see that we
didn't want to waste their or our time trying to compromise on something
that wasn't going to happen anyway.
After all, don't we want to make people happy with their decision?
