Indicators and traction…

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 15:09:53 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> 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.

I think you're misinterpreting some of these people. Some will be 
following fashions, but many will be simply not wanting to put 
time and effort in to something that they're not convinced is 
going to work out in the long run.