Indicators and traction…

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/23/2015 08:19 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> The most important can be paraphrased as "I had heard of D but as it
> was getting no traction, I never looked at it again."
>

While I agree this is something we need to address, I gotta say: I 
*strongly* consider that attitude to be highly indicative of a 
mediocre-at-best developer.

This is engineering, not fucking fashion. Popularity has no place in 
decision making here. From everything I've seen, 90% of the problems 
that exist in computing technology today can be traced back directly to 
some jackass(es) weighing popularity higher than actual technical merit.