D on quora ...

[Adam Wilson]

On 10/6/17 14:12, Rion wrote:

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> When every new languages besides Rust or Zig are GC. That same "flaw" is
> not looked upon as a issue. It seems that D simply carries this GC
> stigma because the people mentioning are  C++ developers, the same
> people D targets as a potential user base.
>
> D can have more success in targeting people from scripting languages
> like PHP, Ruby, Python, where the GC is not looked upon as a negative.
> The same effect can be seen in Go its popularity with drawing developers
> from scripting languages despite it not being there intention.
>
> I always felt that D position itself as a higher language and in turn
> scares people away while at the same time the people it wants to
> attracts, with most are already set in there ways and looking at excuses
> to discredit D. The whole C++ has all of D features and does not need a
> GC / GC is bad excuse we see in the quora.com posting fits that
> description ( and not only there, also on other sites ).

What if we stop focusing on the C/C++ people so much? The like their 
tools and have no perceivable interest in moving away from them 
(Stockholm Syndrome much?). The arguments the use are primarily meant as 
defensive ploys, because they compare everything to C/C++ and when it 
doesn't match in some way or another the other language must be 
deficient. They've already decided that C/C++ is the meter stick against 
which all other languages are to be judged. Unsurprisingly, nothing that 
is NOT C/C++ meets their exacting demands.

I saw we ditch the lot and focus on the large languages where D can get 
some traction (C#/Java).

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Adam Wilson
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