On Sunday, 22 December 2019 at 13:05:02 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> On 2019-12-20 21:26:00 +0000, Andre Pany said:
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>> In the new iX (1 Januar 2020) there is also a Leserbrief for the article;)
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> Even there are only few comments, every comment helps.
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> It's very hard to convince programmers to give something else a try and stay to it long enough to see the light. Most of the time, evangelizing is very frustrating. The better strategy from my experience is: Deliver a cool product and than tell everyone "we are 10 times more productive than our competitors while delivering a better product." You can be sure, everyone wants to know how you do it.

I think it's much better to spend most time on those receptive to it anyway, which is a very small proportion of the programmers many people might know in real life.  The beauty of being the challenger is you can keep growing by persuading only a small proportion of people who were already poised on the edge or would be if they knew of D.

Yes - I agree that delivering value speaks the loudest.  But of course in a competitive market it's not necessarily going to be something people discuss.  It's outside the reality of many others, what can be achieved with D, and at the same time you don't necessarily want to actually make it vivid to your competitors how they could do what you did.

I think also that enthusiasm and working code might be more effective than logic and feature comparison.

The biggest asset the D community has might be the calibre of people that are drawn to it and that stick with it...