Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:20:59PM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 16:13:51 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
> > I've never seen that page. Would've helped me to see it earlier. The
> > D download page should include a blurb with a link to that install
> > page.
> 
> They are there - hover over them:
> 
> https://imgur.com/a/JvZwI
> 
> I submitted it without hovering initially:
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1697
> 
> And the install.sh page was added in this PR:
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1936
> 
> Please let us know what would help you to find this page quicker.

Wow.  I set out *deliberately* looking for that link, and couldn't find
it until I looked at your screenshot. I definitely wouldn't have found
it if I didn't even know it was there.

I'm no UI consultant, but that link definitely needs to be made more
visible.  Is the hover thing really *necessary*?  For something this
important, I'd say it's a bad idea to hide it behind a hover (I use
keyboard navigation, and so wouldn't even have noticed it, though I
concede that I'm a rare case :-P). But then I don't know the original
reasoning behind making it hover.


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