Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/14/2014 12:37 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> There were a few contributing factors, but by far the most significant
> factor was the extremely poor Windows environment support and Visual
> Studio debugging experience.

This is valuable information, while it's fresh in your mind can you please 
submit a bugzilla issue for each point?


> They then made HUGE noises about the quality of documentation. The
> prevailing opinion was that the D docs, in the eyes of a
> not-a-D-expert, are basically unreadable to them. The formatting
> didn't help, there's a lot of noise and a lack of structure in the
> documentation's presentation that makes it hard to see the information
> through the layout and noise. As senior software engineers, they
> basically expected that they should be able to read and understand the
> docs, even if they don't really know the language, after all, "what is
> the point of documentation if not to teach the language..."
> I tend to agree, I find that I can learn most languages to a basic
> level by skimming the docs, but the D docs are an anomaly in this way;
> it seems you have to already know D to be able to understand it
> effectively. They didn't know javascript either, but skimming the
> node.js docs they got the job done in an hour or so, after having
> wasted *2 days* trying to force their way through the various
> frictions presented but their initial experience with D.

I understand what you're saying, but I find it hard to figure out just what to 
do to change it. Any specific suggestions?