D easily overlooked?

[Ali via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 19:27:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 18:58:31 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> People need to eventually understand that all the energy 
>> wasted for complaining about D/the community/whatever would be 
>> so much more valuable if put into contributions.
>
> Value is relative. So, if you don't use a tool in production 
> why would you derive more value value from "improving" on the 
> tool rather than analysing it to figure out 
> why/why-not/how/how-not etc? Gaining insight might actually be 
> more valuable…

Well, D now have a Improvement Proposal system (DIP), the actual 
visibility of this process can surely improve

I recommend looking at Tcl's TIP system, for inspiration

In my opinion an Improvement Proposal system is a lot better than 
a roadmap, because you can very clearly see, what the community 
is talking about, which improvements have implementations, which 
are just ideas, which are approved which are not, some IP entries 
takes years to implement

I think as the DIP system matures, it will help D a lot

And dont worry about D, its been around for 16-17 years now, it 
may never be as big as Python, Ruby or Go

But what is more important that it continues to be developed and 
improved and ... used

Many languages have small communities and will continue to .. 
such as Haskell, Idris, OCaml, F#, Clojure, Lisp , Elm  ..

As long as D have a solid, bug free implementation, you have 
nothing to worry about .. and it doesnt have to be your only 
language .. honestly it should, now one language should be your 
only language, I would argue any developer can master 3 to 5 
languages at any time ... try to pick ones that dont overlap much

Python, SQl, R, .. D, Dart