Why is D unpopular, redux.

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 05:48:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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...

All good advices. Really the most important one is the first one: 
"Complete what you’ve got."

We've got a ton of good stuff in D, but we keep adding more 
rather than making sure that what we have is really good.