D beyond the specs

[Laeeth Isharc]

On Saturday, 17 March 2018 at 16:26:27 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> While France is all about status (titles, living well over your 
> means), and people prefer to learn "high-status" languages, I 
> guess this is the profile of late adopters everywhere.

Yes, status seems one of the most important things for normal 
people.

But there's a repeating pattern in life.  A small group, drawn to 
do something for intrinsic reasons starts to create something.  
And they get no face because it seems completely unrealistic and 
in truth the odds are very much against success.  But they create 
something excellent because they care about intrinsic reasons and 
not social factors.  And some people start to take notice, but 
it's still more or less a fringe but interesting project.  And it 
stays that way until the world changes, and changes in a way that 
looks obvious with hindsight but nobody really expected at the 
time.  At that point what's important changes and the project 
starts to become popular.  Then people more ambitiously than 
intrinsically motivated start to be drawn by what's now obvious 
and the project starts to be popular, and yet with that 
popularity comes a change in its nature and sometimes people 
think back to the old days.

So I think that pattern might apply to D, and if that's right one 
might as well focus on the challenges before one and enjoy the 
benefits from the present makeup of the community.  Because as 
adoption grows eventually the makeup will change too.

If you're good and care about what's important, eventually status 
comes to you.  And now you've got more problems to worry about.  
But life isn't about banishing problems, but overcoming them.