Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

Seb via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 7 00:51:01 PDT 2016


On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 21:36:52 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 16:10:29 UTC, bob belcher wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> why not a poll, and ask the community that they want first.
>
> http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=7f7ebc16c280d0c3c

Btw current intermediate results:

Immature tooling	                                11.4%	18	
Holes in the Standard Library: Images, Containers ...	10.8%	17	
Weak tutorials and documentation	                9.5%	15	
Garbage collector	                                7.6%	12	
Unwillingness to break old code to improve the lan...	7.6%	12	
Excessive memory usage during compilation	        7.0%	11
Missing sophisticated DLL support	                5.7%	9	
No (big) corporate support	                        4.4%	7	
Unfinished and/or inadequate language features	        4.4%	7	
Small job market	                                4.4%	7
Large size of binaries	                                4.4%	7	
Holes and bugs in safety	                        3.8%	6	
No compelling debugger support	                        3.8%	6	
No web services framework	                        3.8%	6	
No compelling plugin for wide-spread IDEs (Intelli...	3.2%	5	
General unwillingness of Andrei&Walter to listen t...	2.5%	4	
No compelling Visual Studio plugin	                1.3%	2	
Not enough advantages/features	                        1.3%	2	
General unwillingness of Andrei&Walter to listen t...	1.3%	2	
compile times do not justify coffee breaks	        1.3%	2	
Too fast	                                        0.6%	1


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