On 5 July 2017 at 12:37, bitwise via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 July 2017 at 04:49:29 UTC, Manu wrote:
My feeling is, having 2 very similar plugins is confusing to potential
users, and it undermines user confidence. Ie, users have the feeling that
they're competing hacky things maintained by some guy, rather than
something that's more 'official' with consolidated community support.

 I have to disagree with this. When I search for plugins and see a wide selection of completing products, it tells me that the language has a healthy ecosystem, with a lot of interested users. This in turn gives me faith in the language, and it's future, and makes me more comfortable investing time in it. I'm much more likely to forgive the bugs I find on the grounds that they will most likely be fixed.

On the other hand, if there was only one plugin, and it was the "official" plugin, branded with "D Language Foundation" or "Digital Mars", this would paint a different, yet also positive picture for me.

I'm glad we can agree on that second point :)
On the former point; I personally can sympathise with that opinion only in the context of being a nerd. It is my experience that most professional programmers I've ever worked with are NOT nerds, they are just people who have a job. Most people aren't interested in 'ecosystem health', they are interested in authority, and intend/prefer to conform with the accepted standards. The worst thing they can see is a 'vibrant' ecosystem. It looks like 'linux nonsense' to these people.