Why D isn't the next "big thing" already

Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 27 13:34:36 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 15:11:00 UTC, llaine wrote:
> why it isn't the "big thing" already.

1. Less easy to explain

A big selling point is that D is good in all directions, and 
stupidly easy to apply in many situations.

That is a lot harder to explain that a simple value proposal like 
"let's pretend we solved multithreading!" or "let's pretend we 
solved bugs!".

Competitors concentrate their communications on one or two 
problems to be solved. D is more of an enabler thing, so many 
people who eg. don't know what meta-programming allows don't miss 
it in day-to-day operations.



2. Social Proof

I would wager that in large part the D community is vaccinated 
against taking decisions by social proof alone. But we need ever 
more stories like "that rich/trendy company is making loads of 
money with D".



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