TIOBE February 2016.... 15 ?!

Bubbasaur via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 3 11:48:48 PST 2016


On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 19:28:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> ...
> Whenever D is making a marketing push you get newbies in the 
> forums complaining about lacking libraries, lacking IDE, 
> lacking tooling. Then they leave, most likely with a bad 
> impression, because they had higher expectations.

Yes they leave and go to another language with a lot of tools but 
the new language design sucks or it's slow to developing or have 
restrictions whatever.

> If people believe that D is as popular as Swift, which is the 
> current TIOBE ranking, they also expect the eco system of 
> Swift. Which D cannot deliver.

Couldn't some of those "new" people see a great potential on D 
and write new tools that is lacking right now?

Sorry but this is not like be realistic you're being too much 
pessimistic. Let the river take it's course. :)

Bubba.


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