Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:26:39 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Lutger wrote:
>> It's interesting why unittest (and assert) are such big success. My  
>> idea is that it's not in spite of, but because of their utter  
>> simplicity. I speculate that if it would have been different, for  
>> example if you would had to create a new file for a unittest, it would  
>> not have been used so much.
>
> I tend to agree. I've found over and over, that if you drive things down  
> to their simplest essence, they'll get wide adoption. If someone needs  
> to read a manual with long lists of options, they'll pass it by.
>
> For instance, look at the installer thing. I think that downloading a  
> zip file, and unzipping it, is so trivial. Yet this seems to be a  
> blocker for people using D, over and over I hear about how hard it is to  
> install. I find this baffling. But yet, it's obviously an issue.

Downloading, unzipping (where?), setting up your path, marking the binary  
as executable (on *nix).

Much easier to use the OS's installer and let the package tell me how to  
set it up.

Getting the files and expanding them isn't the difficult part :)

-Steve