On 10/12/18 4:05 AM, Vijay Nayar wrote:
But the D community has also been very receptive of changes to the language
The community is. I don't feel like it's been true of the leadership for some years now (and I don't mean just W&A.)
One thing that does concern me, is the avenues in which people can discover D. For me personally, after a particularly nasty C++ project, I just googled for "alternatives to C++" and that's how I found D back in 2009 or so. But the same search today turns up nothing about D. I'm not sure sure how people are supposed to find D.
This is a VERY important thing, and it's true for many of us (myself included). This why it was a HUGE mistake when the community decided it should become taboo to promote D as a redesigned C++. That was ALWAYS D's core strength, we all know it, that's why many (if not most) of us are here, and hell, that's literally what D was *intentionally designed* to be.
But then political correctness came and threw that angle out the window, in favor of this awkward "fast code fast" nonsense, and we've been fighting the uphill "I don't understand the point of D" image battle ever since.
