Too focused on C++ programmers?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:27:03PM +0100, qznc wrote:
> I read an interesting article [0] with a weird title. It got me
> thinking about Ds marketing [1]. Are we too focused on the C++
> programmers? Most of them are very unlikely to switch. In
> comparison, D should be much easier to sell to people, who are
> already considering Go/Scala/Clojure/Node.js/etc. I restructured [2]
> the tutorial to target them more specifically.
> 
> [0] http://braythwayt.com/2013/11/27/herd-thither-me-hither.html#revised
> [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6814922
> [2] http://qznc.github.io/d-tut/basics.html

Under the section "For Go Programmers", the wording of the 2nd paragraph
is a bit unfortunate:

	Why would you prefer D? D supports generic programming, which
	means less code and type safety. ...
	      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That could be misinterpreted to mean "less code and less type safety".
(I know it sounds silly, but you never know... first impressions can
mean a lot to a newcomer.) Maybe a better wording might be:

	"... less code and better type safety." ?


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