Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 11:21 +0000, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 11:11:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 09:55 +0000, ketmar via Digitalmars-d 
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > […]
> > > considering that the whole package, including dlangUI, is one 
> > > man work... give it a chance! ;-)
> > 
> > A project starting as a one person thing is quite natural, a 
> > project aiming to gain traction remaining a one person project 
> > is a dead end siding.
> 
> not everybody is good at promoting their work. yes, this skill is 
> required to make your project wide-known (and then wide-used), 
> but... this is where other people can step in to help. i'm sux in 
> promoting things too, so i'm doing as much as i can: mentioning 
> the project occasionally here and there.

My point was not so much a direct marketing one more an indirect one:
if a project is claiming to be a production thing usable by all and
sundry but is a one-person project, then it isn't actually production
ready. It may actually be production ready, but it will not be
perceived as that: person under a bus scenario and all that.

-- 

Russel.
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