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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