Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > On 1/17/12 4:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 1/17/2012 2:07 AM, Gour wrote: > >> My example was just meant to show what might be the result when one > >> feels that developers are not behind their product in a sense that one > >> 'cannot count on the project' which was supposed to be continuation on > >> my "we always get the feedback it's not safe investment of our time& > >> energy and it would be better to use something else, either C(++), Java, > >> Scala, Python etc." > >> > >> So, I highly admire the work of all members within D community giving > >> something valuable for free, but being interested in success of D, I > >> wanted to share my experience I have when trying to advocate using of D > >> for real (open-source) projects *today*. > >> > >> I'll try to be more sensitive next time... > > > > I'm not taking issue with sensitivity, just that one is *less* likely to > > get responsive bug fixes from Major Software Vendor, and so dismissing D > > for that reason is invalid. > > > > I've seen people say "D doesn't have feature X, so I'm going to use > > language B." But B doesn't have feature X, either. Again, the reason > > given is invalid. > > This is often mentioned, so I, too, thought about it a fair amount. I > think it would be hasty to simplify that judgment. > > I think the reasoning goes like this: > > 1. D lacks feature X that is often needed during the use of language B, > which lacks it too. > > 2. The person reasons they'll see advantage in switching to a language > if it did have X. > > 3. D doesn't, so the proposition of making the effort to switch from B > is less appealing. > > Similar lines of thinking may go about features that B has and D > doesn't, or about features that both B and D have but D implements them > poorly, or about promising differentiating features that D has that > don't work reliably. > > > Andrei
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