D easily overlooked?

Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 16 00:25:45 PDT 2017


> the only thing missing is that "we have more language than 
> [real world usage]" coined from what Andre said at DConf.

I couldn't say it better...

D is a better language, but advertising it for that is not what 
will make it popular.

People have DEVELOPMENT needs, before LANGUAGE needs.

In its current state, D is already perfect for some developments 
(high-performance computing and file processing, etc), but for 
many COMMON "real world usages", IMHO it's still lagging WAY 
behind many "inferior" languages in terms of easy of use, and 
thus immediate usability...

Everything can be done in D with the right amount of effort, but 
the more effort required, the more clever you need to pickup this 
language.

And the less people you will convince to use it.

Sorry, but for many less-skilled programmers like me, that's how 
things work.

So just show a few stupid-simple 20-liners "hello world"-like 
examples ALSO for web and mobile development, and you will 
immediately see much more interest in this language from 
base-level people like me.


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