Females in the community.

[QAston via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 March 2016 at 10:38:56 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> I'm not really sure why I respond to this BUT YOU ARE MISSING 
> THE POINT to a level where I'm at loss of words. Which is 
> really really hard to do. ;^)
>
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>
> All socities are engineered at some level. That you guys think 
> the Jews are relevant is appalling! You don't get the 
> difference between EUGENICS and CULTURE? WTF?
>
> No wonder Donald Trump is having blaze! :-)

Well I can agree that Trump is like Hitler (and nazis, and 
fascists, and eugenics, and communists, and jews) at least in one 
specific aspect - references to him on a unrelated topic should 
end the discussion.

> Women do not loose out by not studying Comp. Sci. IT IS THE 
> OPPOSITE. Comp. Sci. loose out by not having the best qualified 
> students from both genders.
>
> Women do not loose out by not participating in the D community. 
> IT IS OPPOSITE. The D community loose out by having a tone that 
> are off-putting to some women and even more men (due to the 
> fact that there are far more male system level programmers than 
> women). Yes, D has lost users thanks to this attitude. And 
> people have accounted for it.
>
> So, if you want to stay small. Great. This is the way to go.

In my opinion D didn't gain as much traction because it's 
mismarketed. It's marketed as a systems programming language 
while it doesn't have advantages compared to the other system 
languages - it's more problematic in cases where people need the 
system level programming language, especially the fact that it's 
heap-happy. It should be marketed as a domain programming 
language because it has more advantages compared to other domain 
programming languages (c#, java, go, python).

Making community more accessible is obviously desired. And I 
agree with what you've just written - accessible for both men and 
women. So it's not a gender issue. Policies applied need to be 
neutral to not create resentment.