Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Chris]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 14:41:50 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 10:25:03 UTC, Guillaume Lathoud 
> wrote:
>> Maybe there is a psychological explanation for the debate here 
>> - please bear with me - just speculating:
>
> It's a lot less complicated than it sounds.
>
> Some average joes (you know who they are) with zero skin in the 
> game are given the chance to talk to incredible programmers and 
> have them answer in a sort of ego-tripping trance.
>
> But the only way to have them answer is to troll more or less 
> subtly, and this behaviour has been going on for years.
>
> The lesson should only be that the leadership **should not have 
> to listen to this whole load of non-sense** from anonymous 
> low-achievers that blame their tools. And they want things that 
> works well to fail with them.

Ha ha ha! Nicely put. People complain about aloofness and 
arrogance and are called underachievers the leaders shouldn't 
listen to. A beauty! A recipe that has worked well throughout 
history.

Also, these "skin in the game" comments, I used to have a skin, a 
reasonably big one, in the game, but I found out that that's what 
it is for you guys, a game. A game of features, a game of having 
one up on other posters, a game of shifting the blame. All I know 
is that much younger languages already get the basics right or 
try hard to get them right, craft and test features carefully, no 
cowboy work.