Future(s) for D.

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/20/2015 12:34 PM, ketmar wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:23:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
> let's compare numbers for php, java, ruby, js -- and D. most companies
> will not bet on language for which a pool of "hireable" developers is
> small. and it's understandable: two developers quit, and the project is
> dead, doomed to complete rewrite in another language. sheesh!
>

Well, not really. I mean, managers and HR all *believe* that to be so. 
But that's because pretty much all non-programmers, even ones in the 
software dev industry who really should know better, are stuck in this 
bizarre idea that programming skills are somehow non-transferable 
between languages. Which is obviously total bullcrap, but try explaining 
that to self-assured HR folk and other pointy-hairs.

Hell, my first introduction to JS, ASP (yea, it was a long time ago) and 
web-dev in general was on-the-job as a fresh hire, and I was up to speed 
in like a week or so, if even that.

The one thing relevant here that has *never* left my mind:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html

Favorite part:
"The recruiters-who-use-grep, by the way, are ridiculed here, and for 
good reason. I have never met anyone who can do Scheme, Haskell, and C 
pointers who can't pick up Java in two days, and create better Java code 
than people with five years of experience in Java, but try explaining 
that to the average HR drone."

So true.