It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

[welkam]

On Monday, 26 November 2018 at 10:19:14 UTC, Chris wrote:
> I may well be that Walter and other core devs really feel that 
> they are making great progress when porting DMD to D and stuff 
> like that.

Actually D had postponed porting from C++ to D for a long time. 
Other languages like nim and jai from beginning had their 
implementation done in itself. Secondly translating was done with 
a tool and my guess didnt took much of work for DMD backend. Well 
compared to what would it take to make android app development 
easy. Thirdly compiler being in D means more people from 
community can participate in compiler development. I started 
twiddling with compiler because it was mostly in D and would not 
touched it if it was in C++.

> Indeed, their own projects might be emotionally rewarding and 
> trigger feelings of euphoria.

Its clear you havent read single whitepaper on behavioral 
psychology or neuroscience.

> A project like D cannot survive if it's only driven by personal 
> preferences.

The good thing is that its not only driven by personal 
preference. Now we have d foundation and companies who sponsor 
work on libraries like Symmetry Investments. This trend will only 
increase but not at the speed you or I want.

> In my own job I sometimes work on interesting and emotionally 
> rewarding stuff, but I also have to do the head wrecking and 
> boring stuff that may not even be related to writing code - 
> boring but necessary.

You compare open source with for profit company again. We all do 
boring but necessary stuff in paid jobs. Your not exception. What 
matters here is that you expect other people who worked 8h of 
boring stuff to go home and work on more boring stuff for free. 
These kind of people are rare and you are not one of them 
yourself.

> It's not just a question of the - by now famous - $1,600 a 
> month. I've seen other open source projects thrive because of a 
> different community culture.

Stop being vague and start naming open source projects that are 
as big scope as D and thrive without corporate sponsorship. We 
might learn something.

> it takes ages to get a review / accepted, then why bother?

You would be surprised what a little bit of money can change and 
Nicholas already doing good work
https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=


Oh and about fixing autodecode https://youtu.be/Lo6Q2vB9AAg?t=4044