Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 07:26:30 UTC, Manu via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> I get so frustrated by the apparent majority in this forum who 
> seem to
> think 'most' programmers are the type who would even read or 
> post on a
> forum like this. Or read a programming book! They must surely 
> be the
> overwhelming minority.

I am well-aware that people who actually have a passion for 
programming are tiny minority. Though many still read programming 
books because that adds some weight for career advancement 
requests.

But you call to support interests of those programmers at cost of 
interests of existing users - something absolutely impractical at 
current language development stage. Trying to explain why this 
expectation is not reasonable and not just is the least hostile 
reaction I can give.

Whatever Andrei says, there is no benefit in blindly pumping user 
base if you don't have resources to support it. I also remember 
him saying "want million users, build as if you had million 
users". Well, currently we don't truly build even for thousand 
users.

You have been stressing those cases for several years now. Have 
you actually contributed anything to DMD to improve debug symbol 
generation seeing how this is important to you?

I keep asking you simple question you avoid answering - who 
personally should work to address your concerns? Those are all 
legit concerns and I doubt anyone would willingly prefer to keep 
things as they are. But who will do it if apparently you are the 
person who needs it most and you don't want to do it?