Civility

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 08:08:46 UTC, zjh wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 07:37:51 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
> Yes. So, finally, the question is `"positioning"`. Who is your 
> `"target user"`?
> What kind of people are you going to `attract` to join `'d'`?
> I have been proposing to attract `talents in c++`.
> Because `'c++' talents` care about `'speed/memory'` most, and 
> they are also willing to write `libraries`. This is an 
> `excellent group`! Why not `attract` them?

Yes, I agree, but D has to be a language that C++ programmers 
want to use in their spare time, so it has to less complex with 
clean syntax and not try to become like C++. There is also no 
point in becoming a language like Rust.

You could also look at github, to see what kind of projects 
people make.

Btw here are the stats for number of created repositories on 
github in the past 6 months (roughly, github search is a bit 
inaccurate):

language | new repos in past 6 months (rounded to 1 digit)
--------- | ---
Java |1000000
TypeScript | 500000
C# | 400000
C++ | 300000
Go | 100000
Rust |60000
haskell | 5000
Zig | 700
Nim | 600
D | 400
Crystal |300
Odin |100
Pony | 30

There is a big gap between popular languages and niche languages.