A Perspective on D from game industry

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 16:55:53 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 16:19:25 UTC, c0de517e wrote:
>> But as I wrote I doubt that people will think at a point that 
>> yes, now D is 100% a better version of C++/Java/younameit, 
>> let's switch. I don't think it's how things go, I think 
>> successful languages find one thing a community really can't 
>> live without and get adopted there and from there expand. E.G. 
>> JavaScript is horribly broken, but some people really needed 
>> to be able to put code client-side on web pages, so now JS is 
>> everywhere...
>
> I think this is actually a flawed mentality that causes a lot 
> of long-term problems to all programmers. By resisting to 
> switch to languages simply because those are good we inevitably 
> get to the point of switching because it is forced by some 
> corporation that has bucks to create an intrusive ecosystem. 
> And despite the fact language itself can be horrible no choice 
> remains by then.

Specially important in systems programming languages, as the 
majority of developers only use what is available on the 
OS/Hardware vendors SDK.

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Paulo