Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Bill Baxter]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Adam D. Ruppe<destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:59:45PM -0400, Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Walter
>> Bright<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Much of D's improvements appear to be small, but the aggregate is large
>> > enough that once you write a project in D, you'll find it pretty hard to go
>> > back to another language.
>>
>> This is EXACTLY the point I always try to make to newcomers.
>
>
> Agreed. This is the big benefit, but the hard part is that it takes some
> experience to really realize it.
>
> How can we sell that to someone who doesn't have that experience using it?
>
> "Just take my word for it" doesn't mean much when coming from strangers on
> the Internet, or from the site's homepage.

Even that does have a cumulative effect, though.  If you keep hearing
"take my word for it" from different sources, eventually, if you have
any curiousity at all, you'll want to check it out for yourself.

--bb