Lost a new commercial user this week :(

Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Dec 29 10:08:03 PST 2014


On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 16:33:05 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> But Dicebot is right that "users" are not the concern of those 
> outside a small core who contribute to D.  Most contributors 
> are just scratching their own itch, and users are just 
> potential suckers who might add other features I want. ;)

*Stunned*

On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 17:57:42 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> I don't think it needs to be a zero-sum game.  Removing 
> blockers to entry can make an orders-of-magnitude difference in 
> the number of users for a particular platform, and when you 
> gain users, you gain developers.  Paying now to remove basic 
> usability issues could well free up a lot of core contributor 
> time in future, by opening a door for Windows devs that makes 
> it worth their while to invest effort into the language and its 
> toolchain.

Yes, this is how i see things.


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