Paradox about D's popularity.

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/21/11 2:23 PM, Gor F. Gyolchanyan wrote:
> As much as I'd like D to develop sweet language features like named
> function parameters, directing effort to increase compatibility of D
> with other languages (most notably, C++) would be a better idea,
> because if D gets cheaper and cheaper to use with existing code base,
> more and more people will start caring about D and the aforementioned
> sweet language features will get implemented more rapidly.
>
> If Walter, Andrei and others agree with my proposal, i suggest to
> postpone all enhancement requests for D, except compatibility-related
> ones and direct all our attention to it. As well as direct more
> attention towards fixing DMD bugs, rather then developing phobos
> libraries, because as much as developing phobos is important, having
> a stable compiler is much more important.

Different people work on different things. Firing shoemakers won't 
produce more bakers.

Andrei