D is awesome

[Ali Çehreli]

On 4/30/23 23:22, John Dewey wrote:

 > A balanced focus that demonstrates critical thinking is also very
 > benefical to the language. When I don't see that, I get suspcious of
 > group mentality...etc.

Agreed. But I don't think D suffers from that mentality. It's the 
opposite: Evet in conference presentations you see complaints about 
shortcomings of the language, the library, and everything else. :)

Strangely, even though it's bad for marketing, I actually prefer a 
community like this over a religious one.

 > That's what I like so much about C++ ... everyone seems to hate it ..
 > for some reason or another, while at the same time they easily find ways
 > to demonstrate how amazing it is.

I don't think they are the same group of people.

 > That's the kind of critical thinking the D programming language can use
 > as well.

Again, we don't have any shortage of self criticism.

Ali