Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[David via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 21:25:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/6/2016 1:36 PM, Dave wrote:
>> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 20:33:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 6/6/2016 12:44 PM, Satoshi wrote:
>>>> [...]
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>>> More complex? Wow!
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>>>> [...]
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>>> C++ for junior programmers is easier? Wow!
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>>>> [...]
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>> Most learn C++ in college. So they have a 'headstart'
>
> Even acquiring minimal competency in C++ has a very long 
> learning curve, or perhaps I just have a different idea of what 
> minimal competency is. Heck, the C++ code I wrote just a few 
> years ago I regard as crap today.
>
> My personal pet peeve are junior programmers who think they get 
> it, find some perverted corner case in the language, and build 
> their entire application around that. They confuse their 
> mastery of the corner case with competence.
>
> (This happens with all languages, not just C++, it's just that 
> C++ provides so many opportunities for it!)

D is a little bit harder than most considering the lack of 
tutorials and the chaotic documentation that I have eluded to. 
Consider this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8BGQ3CfPBs

I saw this series literally the day AFTER they released Swift.

I find lots of D talks, but nothing even REMOTELY close to this. 
I have to fall back onto your documentation that is littered with 
non-useful examples and broken links.

This isn't a knock on YOUR work personally. Every time I learn a 
detail of this language I am pleased with the solution (maybe 
with a slight caveat of the GC). It's just how long it takes to 
figure it out and learn what is needed to do things right.