How to work with D?

Dawid Ciężarkiewicz dawid.ciezarkiewicz at asn.pl
Thu Dec 21 04:24:10 PST 2006


Brad Roberts wrote:

> My thoughts are simple:  D is still in an early phase of life where it's
> not reached the level of maturity that a lot of people expect looking at
> it for the first time.  Expectations a major guide to how anything is
> perceived and that ends to make D look bad.  It's unfortunate but true.
> Over the time I've been involved with D (admittedly not terribly long, a
> little over a year), I've seen it grow in some and I expect that growth to
> accelerate over the next few years.  It takes the time and energy of many
> people to achieve the sort level of maturity that D needs to have to be
> reasonably comparable to the likes of Java, C#, C++, PHP, etc.. but I have
> little doubt that the community _will_ get there.

I think you're right that D is in it's early stages and one day it will get
there - along with other the long-time-ago-estabilished.

> So.. my parting thought.  Be brave!  Help the rest of us raise D up to the
> level that it can exceed expectations and replace some of the current
> language leaders.

I'll keep trying. :)



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