Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 08:37:36 UTC, Manu via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

Comparing node.js to D? You probably speak about vibe, not D?

> One of the take-away quotes I think, was "D seems to be a 
> language for
> people who actively want to go and look for it, and take the 
> time to
> learn it. That's never going to be a commercial success."

O_O Huh? Your team really didn't learn C++?