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Btw. the "Chasm" idea is from the book "Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers" by Geoffrey A. Moore D has two p
by ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
Btw. the "Chasm" idea is from the book "Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers" by Geoffrey A. Moore
D has two problems: it doesn't have enough "new" stuff to appeal to the "early adopters" - Rust has sum types + pattern matching, type classes and the borrow checker and, as you've said, it couldn't convince enough "pragmatists" to switch.
- WalterBright 3y agoD has a borrow checker, too.
- ReleaseCandidat 3y agoFor anybody interested: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in-d/ https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in... You really aren't the best language salesman on earth ;). And that's great!
- WalterBright 3y agoYou're right, I'm born to be a nerd, not a salesman.