Discussion about D at a C++ forum

Somedude lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Fri Jan 13 05:56:12 PST 2012


Le 08/01/2012 08:47, Mike Parker a écrit :
> On 1/8/2012 3:57 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Saturday, January 07, 2012 22:19:53 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Here's an interesting discussion that may reflect the perceptions and
>>> misperceptions about D within the larger community.
>>>
>>> http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/58832/
>>
>> Not exactly the most informed discussion. But I would expect that some
>> of the
>> misinformation is fairly typical. I'd say that a lot of what people
>> think or
>> know about D is from a couple of years ago (if not farther back) and/or
>> derived from the opinions of others rather than real experience. And an
>> initial bad experience (as has happened far too often, as we've seen with
>> newbies reactions to stuff not working just around here, let alone in
>> the D
>> community as a whole) can definitely lead to negative and/or misinformed
>> beliefs, which then spread to others outside the D comunity when D is
>> brought
>> up.
>>
>> I'm not sure what we can do about that other than really improving
>> what we
>> have to offer, and while we still have plenty to do, we've definitely
>> been
>> making solid improvements.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> Unfortunately, there's nothing anyone really can do about it (and I'm
> not actually directing this post at you, Jonathan, just preaching in
> general). Java, for example, *still* suffers from the reputation it
> gained back in the late 90's. You have companies like Sony running
> successful online games with both the client and the server developed in
> Java, while around the net people are swearing up and down that it's too
> slow for games. There are issues with Java, sure, but modern JVM
> performance is perfectly acceptable (and then some) for a significant
> number of use cases.
> 

It hasn't prevented Java from being extremely successful in its own area.


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