Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/6/2016 12:44 PM, Satoshi wrote:
> When I told of D to my boss he had a couple of reasons why not to use D for
> development of our products.
>
> * Backward compatibility with existing code.
> * D is much more complex than C++

More complex? Wow!


> * Not enough tutorials and solved problems in D on stack overflow (LOL)
> * We have problem to recruit a good C++ not a good D programmer. (1/100 is good)
> * My boss does not have free time to learn new things...
> * Using GC is strictly prohibited in realtime apps. And D does not have an
> compiler supported ARC
> * D without GC or ARC is not powerful as it can be.
> * More and more people are dumber, we must write our programs for later re-usage
> by any junior what we must employ. C++ is in this way much more easier than D,
> cuz you know what every line of your program do. Employ C++ junior programmer
> and let him to learn D and then work on our projects is not a good (and
> cost-effective) idea.

C++ for junior programmers is easier? Wow!

> * Not everyone is interested in programming, sometimes people are doing it just
> for money.