CTFE ^^ (pow)

[Manu]

On 18 March 2018 at 18:50, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 19/03/2018 2:38 PM, Manu wrote:
>>
>> On 18 March 2018 at 18:29, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
>>
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 19/03/2018 2:21 PM, Manu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 18 March 2018 at 18:11, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
>>>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For those not in the know, Manu is special.
>>>>>
>>>>> He is in essence a use case for D himself.
>>>>>
>>>>> We really should be trying to make him happy in terms of blockers.
>>>>> It's just good business sense.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shame we can't throw money at him, he would have great ROI value.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Haha!
>>>> I tried to mitigate coming across that way, and express myself in
>>>> terms of patience and frustration, which I think is probably something
>>>> a lot of people here can relate to.
>>>>
>>>> Sure, there's no reason for anyone to care about my opinion, but I
>>>> have truly spent years investing in D, and strategies and attempts to
>>>> integrate it into my work *professionally*. Doing company
>>>> demonstrations, training colleagues, attempting small projects as
>>>> proof of concept, etc.
>>>> That's all I care about. I have hobby projects like everyone, but what
>>>> I *really* care about, is getting to the point where I can write D
>>>> code professionally in my field of work.
>>>> I also think I work in one of the prime fields where D has so much to
>>>> offer... but we also have an unusually high bar-to-entry.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Your entire reply is reason to care about your opinion :)
>>>
>>> I'm not alone in thinking that you're a very valuable community member.
>>
>>
>> I'm not though... I'm a noisy whingey one that never actually gives
>> anything back!
>> I'm just a stubborn mule that's constantly trying to fight my way
>> through my next hurdle.
>>
>> I think maybe my lessons are of some value, and I've been a forcing
>> function for a few important developments.
>> If I were to start over again today, I might have different
>> experience, thanks to a relative increase in ecosystem maturity
>> compared to when I started.
>>
>>> Perhaps you can have a chat with a member of DLF about getting a list of
>>> issues for you figured out?
>>
>>
>> I've influenced more than I feel is reasonable with respect to my
>> results. I've mostly failed, and not through lack of trying. There are
>> lots of people here now who are having way more success than I have.
>> I might do that if I could maneuver my workplace into a position where
>> they were to consider a serious investigation again.
>
>
> Your result, is a better D experience for everyone involved.
> There has been no failure that I can see on the communities end.
>
> You failed to create a successful commercial products using D, wait hang on
> Quantum Break!
>
> Just because 99 times out of 100 you've failed doesn't mean 1 won't be
> successful given more hard work.

I'm much more comfortable with confrontational emails :P

I'm not doing much work anymore though...
I'm drifting for entirely preventable reasons. I guess I just wanted
to share that here somehow. In altogether too many words! ;)