Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in news:i9f442$2b...@digitalmars.com:
> Discusses a few languages including D: > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dsdd6/the_next_big_languag > e_2010_edition/ > > Andrei Call me a curmudgeon, but I don't like Next Big Thing discussions. The problem is worse in applications than in programming languages, but I have learned to detest all such discussions. Software users, software reviewers (they're the worst) and even programmers look at Lotus 123 with dollar signs in their eyes and assume that a world of hundreds of millions of computers isn't big enough for any options other than The One True Big Thing. I posted a little rant about this on some newsgroup during The Great Browser Wars. Complaining about the attitude that the world wasn't big enough for two browsers, I noted that the world was plenty big enough for quite a few makes and models of cars. If the software reviewers of the day had worked for a car mag, they would have written about what was The One Best luxury/sports/enconobox/muscle/lots of cargo/lots of passengers/off road use/etc. car. I got two replies. One said "But IE is indeed better than Netscape" and the other asked "But what about the [whatever car it was] that fits into all these categories". I had to go to the gym and spend some time on the heavy bag to work out my frustrations. All of this strikes me as silly as wars over The One True Placement of Curly Braces and The One Best Text Editor. I just want D to be popular enough to give a nice set of useful libraries to work with.