December 14, 2010 Re: D on Wikipedia [Was: Re: Setting the stack size] | ||||
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Posted in reply to Don | On 02/12/2010 14:53, Don wrote: > retard wrote: >> Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:07:19 +0200, so wrote: > >> I find this D language advocacy in Wikipedia disgusting - clearly, you >> should document notable features of D, but the main objective cannot >> be as much visibility as possible. > >> I think that if a language has real technical merits, this kind of >> worrying about the public image is silly. If you worry about D's >> notability, write more articles about D and more code in D. > > Well said. > > Actually, I don't think broad publicity for D is desirable at this > point. Right now, we desperately want library and toolchain developers. > But the arrival of hordes of app developers who expect a polished > product, would be a disaster for D. Well said as well. In fact, I think this is a particular thing we could be doing more to mitigate criticism of D: to make it more clear that at this stage D is still not mature enough in terms of implementation (perhaps in terms of design as well). For example, a lot of the criticism I saw in the Gentoo forums post (and elsewhere I don't remember where) was because of exactly that: the people were expecting D to be quite mature, at least the compiler. -- Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer |
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