Why is D unpopular, redux.

Sat May 21 05:48:59 UTC 2022

On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 03:55:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/20/2022 4:28 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>> What stroke me in there is that almost everybody is missing 
>> the point, but maybe that isn't so surprising, as there is a 
>> self selection bias at play.
>
> But you don't say what the point is!

Complete what you’ve got. No shortcuts or hacks or 
easy-to-add-stuff that doesnt move the needle.

Don’t add more stuff that isnt strictly needed and avoid 
increasing instability and incomplete features.

Get to a stable state so that it becomes possible to implement an 
alternative and tooling.

Focus on retention, stability, tooling.

Focus on conversion and measure when people fall off the 
bandwagon and why. Installation failure? Tutorial shortcomings? 
Didnt find the help forum? Failed to set up IDE? Found the IDE 
experience confusing? Didnt find his way in the documentation?

Measure, measure, measure...