Indicators and traction…

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/23/2015 12:22 PM, Joakim wrote:
>
> Most developers are either not interested in choosing their own tools,
> or know they're not smart enough to do so.

Perhaps so. Although if they're in either of those boats, then IMO 
they're unqualified to be doing it professionally, at least beyond 
intern-level anyway.

> Instead, they rely on the
> same mechanism as most consumers, social proof, ie do what everybody
> else in your field is doing:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof
>
> D is still in the innovators and early adopters stage of the tech
> adoption lifecycle:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle
>
> To break out to an early majority, D will have to prove itself, ie the
> innovators and early adopters have to show empirically that it is
> working better for them and allowing them to do more. Sociomantic would
> be a good success story to point at, though the fact they're still on D1
> hurts that story.
>
> This is why I keep saying D needs a killer app to break out and garner
> attention so it spreads wider.  An example would be how the success of
> Whatsapp brought more attention to Erlang. Barring that, a bunch of nice
> libraries on dub that get attention might work too.  One is a home run,
> the other is a bunch of singles, to use a baseball analogy.
>

Yea, I do agree. Although, I think we already have that with vibe.d, but 
that still doesn't stop the excuses-mill. :/

> I'm hoping that once D is on mobile, it will prove fertile terrain and
> flourish there.  I think more could be done to publicize it as a good
> language on the server, that scales well and is much easier to develop
> with.
>

That'd be nice.

> There will need to be a paid toolchain at some point, to spur more
> development and more manpower on sanding down the rough edges of the
> tools.  That's a chicken-and-egg situation right now, as there might not
> be enough devs and businesses making money off D to pay for such tools yet.

Yea.