Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Laeeth Isharc]

On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 00:36:32 UTC, Dan partelly wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 22:36:08 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 12/27/2017 8:57 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>> It's much better to have a monopoly of some niche or set of 
>>> niches and to use energy from success to expand out from 
>>> there, than to have a small market share of an enormous 
>>> market.
>>
>> Back in the 80's, Zortech made a killing because we had the 
>> only C++ compiler that would generate 16 bit Windows code.
>>
>> I found this out by asking the sales guys what feature of 
>> ZTC++ was closing the deal - X, Y, Z, all the features I held 
>> dear. They'd say nope. Customers wanted to use C++ for Win16, 
>> ZTC++ supported that, sold!
>>
>> I learned a lot from that.
>
> That a product which fulfils a need in a total void sells? No 
> disrespect, but aint it a bit tautological ? Can you find a 
> similar void today which is to be filled by D ? Better yet can 
> you create one ?

Read Peter Thiel's Zero To One, and maybe Walter's point will 
become clear.  If you don't want to read it, that's fine too, but 
it's hard to have a discussion if someone isn't familiar with the 
background of how challengers very often tend to succeed and 
isn't interested to learn about it.

Yes, evidently enough  people using D believe it fills a need.  
See list of companies using D.  Most of them have better things 
to do than post in the forum however.

 From my point of view, D already has a monopoly, as I don't see 
an alternative that's in the same league for what I want to do. 
I'm not going to spell out all the reasons here.

By far the best thing if you want to form an assessment of the 
language for your own needs is to watch a bunch of dconf videos, 
read the bits of Phobos that appeal to you, read lots of other D 
code and start trying to solve your own problems.

I don't think it's a language suitable for everyone, but I do 
think most people for whom it's suitable today will quickly get 
why if they take some of those steps I suggested...