Re: Indicators and traction…

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 27 September 2015 at 16:45, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 03:34:31 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>> On 24 September 2015 at 01:09, Nick Sabalausky via
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>>> Popularity has no place in decision making here.
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>> Sadly, false.
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>
> As much as it would be nice to not have decisions based on popularity, we
> _do_ want D to be popular regardless, and while we want to be technically
> superior, we don't actually need to convince people on those grounds. We
> just need to convince them. If that means convincing many of the better
> programmers via technical merit and many of the rest via pure popularity,
> then so be it. There's no reason why we can't succeed on both fronts, though
> it's arguably easier to make headway based on technical merit, since that's
> easier to control and doesn't require becoming popular first.

This :)