Mike Farnsworth wrote: > GirlProgrammer Wrote: > >> BCS wrote: >>> Hello GirlProgrammer, >>> >>>> If D doesn't suck, and is better than C++ why am I not using it? >>>> Indeed, why isn't hardly anyone using it? >>>> >>> >>> Because qunatity of D libraries sucks and because the D tool chains >>> suck and because the D infrastructure sucks and because all the rest >>> of the stuff that gets good after you've been a popular language for >>> a decade or so still sucks. >>> >>> <jokeingly type="86%">We're working on it, OK!?!?</jokeingly> >> >> On the joking html part, and it's been how many YEARS now? Circa >> 1996? > > Not to feed the troll or anything, but a little datapoint for the > rest of you: my father created the first large-scale commercial > software for factory/fab simulation and scheduling starting in, oh, > 1981, and it is *STILL* profitable and relevant. > > Some things take time. Patience, padawan. The software industry > moves fast, but sometimes it shouldn't. This ain't a popularity > contest or a political campaign. It's a tool in the toolbox.
"And Moses led the people into the desolation of the wilderness, where they dwindled for 40 years". Seems like "D" has happened before!