My first experience as a D Newbie

[lobo]

On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 21:18:43 UTC, Rion wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 18:10:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Told by whom?
>
> The responses here seem to be a good indicator that he is 
> wasting his time. The past responses in similar topics.
>
>> Even Andrei or Walter can be convinced over time, if one is 
>> persistent enough. :-D  There have been cases of this in the 
>> past.
>> Of course, this presumes that one cares about the issue enough 
>> to persist in the face of opposition, which may or may not be 
>> the case here.
>
> You mean like those where people are told, if you write a 
> proposal it may get accepted. Then the author does all the 
> work, writes the code changes, gets pushed to make more 
> changes, gets ignored over time and loses interest, only for 
> year later it showing up again and the process repeats? And 
> nothing gets done to the point the author simply moved on to 
> other languages. Yes, those have been very successful ( sarcasm 
> ) in persuading people to put time into D development.
>
> D has a bad track record with implementations of proposals, 
> even when the actual code has been written. There has always 
> been a standard: Walter writes it, its going to get accepted 
> with a high ratio in one form or another. Somebody who is not a 
> core member, well ...
>
> But this is my last response on this. Moving on to a different 
> language because from my point of view, D will not be very open 
> / marketing focused to non C++ developers. And some people seem 
> very willing to push people there buttons when topics like this 
> come up. As we see in this topic. I regret that the actions of 
> few constantly ruin the work of others ( to bring people in ). 
> What seems to be a recurring theme.
>
> But let bygones be bygones. Good fortune to you all.

I have been rung out several times in the D, Python and C++ 
communities trying to get various proposals up over the yrs. I 
dare not count the hours that have gone into each and I have to 
say that D is the most forgiving and helpful community when it 
comes to feedback and help.

For me the proposal process, i.e. drafting, prototype 
implementation etc., is the best personal learning and 
development experience money can't buy and the acceptance of a 
proposal is second to this. That is what I get out of submitting 
proposals.

bye,
lobo