D popularity

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 07:20:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 02:01:42 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> D does continue to face an uphill battle for mindshare: These 
>> days,
>> most people who write code prefer to use languages that accept 
>> ANY
>> grammatically-correct code and deliberately remain silent 
>> about all
>> mechanically-checkable problems they can possibly ignore. 
>> Apparently
>> this is because they prefer to manually write extra unittests 
>> so that
>> only a subset of these errors are actually guaranteed to get 
>> caught
>> (if there's any guarantee at all).
>
> In my experience, most programmers don't want to write unit 
> tests, so I
> suspect that the folks who are pushing for less strict 
> languages generally
> aren't testing their code any better than the folks using 
> strict languages
> are. I suspect that the main problem with folks wanting the 
> compiler to just
> accept stuff is that too many of those folks started with 
> scripting languages
> where you don't have compilation errors, because you don't 
> compile anything.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

We move from ruby on rail to Node.js for scalability reasons 
!!!!!!