D popularity

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 18:07:04 PST 2013


On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 09:48:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 08:55:00 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> 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 
>> !!!!!!
>
> I always laugh when I read such things.
>
> Back in 1999, I was doing web development in our own TCL Apache 
> module, with a developed in-house framework (C/TCL), which was 
> quite similar to Rails 1.0.
>
> Around 2002, we started to migrate to C++/.NET (at the time 
> only available to Microsoft partner companies like ours), 
> because of scalability issues.
>
> What this taught us is that if you want to really scale, only 
> compiled languages will do a proper job.
>
> Yet people seem not to learn from history.
>

So I tested tweeting that with a #facepalm hashtag. I got some 
ruby on rail people following me now. That makes me really sad.


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