Lost a new commercial user this week :(

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Dec 29 11:11:03 PST 2014


On 12/29/14 10:58 AM, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 18:42:17 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 15:34:44 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> This is widely advertised statement I can't agree with. For me goal
>>> is having working language that works. Getting users is indirect way
>>> to achieve that by attracting more contributions but user just by
>>> itself has not value to _me_.
>>
>> An indirect benefit is still a benefit -- as I said in my previous
>> post, these things aren't a zero-sum game.  Among other things, more
>> users means not only the likelihood of more contributions, but also
>> more bugs and points of failure identified, more experienced people to
>> use as a sounding board for ideas, more people to call on for help
>> when you have a problem, and so on.
>
> It also means more people asking for stuff, then doing nothing to
> contribute towards it, as though the D community is their slave labor.

If we, the D community, want D to succeed, we must change this attitude. 
-- Andrei


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