too early for D2 and too late for D1

[Gour-Gadadhara Dasa]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:54:30 +0200
Ulrik Mikaelsson <ulrik.mikaelsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> My view, is the D community right now are thinking long and hard about
> their own needs, and less of the needs of their users. (For a
> language, the application programmer IS the user.) Maybe even rightly
> so, getting things language-wise right from the start IS important!
> However, if it is desirable to attract developers that want to use D
> for productivity right now, there are a lot of practical issues that
> needs addressing, rough edges to smoothen, and hardly any of them lie
> in the language itself.

I agree. 

Shortly after I joined this place, Walter sent a post listing
different ways how community can help D. Here it is:

  * Write articles about D and post them online in various forums

  * Go through bugzilla and submit patches for bugs

  * Provide D interfaces (.di files) to popular C libraries

  * Integrate D support for your favorite editor

  * Write convoluted code to try and break the compiler

  * Contribute to the GDC and LDC projects

  *Write library modules for an area that you know well


Interestingly enough, it's not listed 'write general-purpose
application in D...so that others can see D is useful for writing
practical applications' and that just the way I thought I could
contribute  :-)

Anyway, enough talk. I wish all success to D2 so that we might
consider it as viable alternative for our project(s) in not so distant
future.

Bye... ;)


Sincerely,
Gour


-- 
“In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are
all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu)

http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 834 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/attachments/20110418/f6297a00/attachment-0001.pgp>