Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 19:34:52 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> please, explain me, *whose* exactly post was "disgusting, 
> selfish and
> deluded"? 'cause now i'm completely lost.

Ok, i will explain because i think my point should be made clear 
and because this thread is giving valuable feedback (from Manu) 
to the D community about a missed opportunity in industry!

I have no argument with people contributing to D to further their 
interests. That is what (i'm guessing) pushes most open source 
projects forward. What i firmly object to and what i find very 
degrading is that because certain people make contributions to D 
it gives them such arrogance as to espouse their personal 
motivations as the overall goal and motivations of D. Also in the 
process trying to persuade other (non-contributing) users that 
their expectations are illegitimate or somehow lesser in 
importance.

D, as a project, already has a firmly entrenched goal and it's 
motivation is to reach that goal. Anyone contributing to D must 
acknowledge that goal and be prepared to sustain it through their 
contributions. The goal is set by Walter and Andrei. The goals 
are (mostly) outlined here: http://dlang.org/overview.html

When someone enquires about the progress of a particular feature 
they do not need to hear "contribute or gtfo". What they need is 
a civil answer preferably pointing to a roadmap.

Some recent users are becoming very vocal, especially regarding 
memory allocation regarding GC, RC, etc. because D is being 
pushed towards the C++ crowd and this is what they expect to be 
able to control. It is marketed as a system programming language, 
like it or not.  These users expect full control. Of course this 
is a work in progress. (@nogc, etc.) I know that, you know that, 
but they don't. Please don't say "I contribute and you don't so 
shut up". It make the entire community look like massive dicks.

Yes, i know that some users are always pushing for the same 
features to be implemented and others just what some features to 
be actually finished, me too! but this is no reason to give them 
attitude and tell them to contribute or gtfo. Some people just 
aren't capable of contributing (me included). But that doesn't 
render their requests moot! Especially when their expectations 
are included in the goals of D.

I want to contribute, i want to push D forward, i'm slowly 
educating myself to a standard where i'm comfortable to be able 
to do so. This constant attitude however just makes me want to 
concentrate on other languages.