Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Sergei Nosov via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 11:16:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/19/2014 2:47 AM, Sergei Nosov wrote:
>> The probable solution to this is to attract some "good" 
>> programmers to point out
>> and work on the aforementioned issues - site, documentation, 
>> tooling, etc. But
>> I'm not sure it's possible to do this for D with volunteer 
>> efforts.
>
> Sure it's possible - but the issues have to be specific. "Need 
> more examples", for example (!), is nice but not helpful to 
> anyone trying to improve the documentation. Saying "I need an 
> example for std.foo.bar()" is an actionable item.

I'm afraid, the answer to this specific question is - "Every 
function needs an example". Consider, e.g. 
http://en.cppreference.com/w/ or 
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ It's hard to find a function 
that doesn't have a usage example.

Granted, the mentioned references are most likely volunteer 
effort (are they?). But it took C++ something like 20 years and a 
wide corporate adoption for that to happen.

I guess, it took less time for other languages, like Python or 
Ruby, but that's, probably, because those languages looked really 
interesting and fun at their times. So they attracted a lot of 
"good" programmers.

D poses itself as a more serious language (at least it's how it 
looks like). And, probably, nobody will say that it's bad. But, 
as a consequence, it makes it less attractive to "good" 
programmers. Especially now, when there's lot of successful "toy" 
languages. D is not "flashy" enough these days.