Being Positive

[Dukc]

On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran 
wrote:
> Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who 
> is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?

Well, programmers are engineers, and engineers tend to focus on 
things that need improvement. That has the downside that the 
attitude might stealthily get negative. That is likely to be the 
base reason.

Too positive an attitude in a wrong woy would stall the 
development. That does not mean negativity is desirable, just 
that it's sometimes hard to say what's constructive criticism and 
what's complaining.

> I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust 
> forum and so on.

I don't feel the general attitude to be negative, I think many 
people are very positive here: Andrei, Ali and H.S.Teoh are 
excellent examples. And those who sound negative at times are 
being constructive.

It's true there are rant posts that fail to keep a good attitude, 
but I think they are usually from "outside" people. Regular D 
users are almost always reasonably nice.