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[Brad Roberts]

On 10/6/2017 10:19 PM, Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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).

Or recognize that painting huge diverse groups as if there's a single 
brush with which to do so is a huge fallacy.  Consider that the two 
leaders, as well as a large number of the contributing developers, come 
from the c++ community and that's not a bad thing, but rather a big part 
of _why_ they came to D.

As always, focusing on the users of the language tends to pay a lot more 
dividends than focusing on nay sayers.  Luckily, that's how things tend 
to proceed here, so yay for that.