Advice for the novice. Hmm. Best advice I can give is ignore your critics and everyone who tells you it can't be done, you're not good enough, you'll inevitably fail.
Market research has always led me astray. Making things that simply please myself have been far, far more successful.
Which is my favorite language? D, of course! As for why, it's the language I always wanted to program in, though I didn't realize it and it was a process to discover it.
I've listened to the two interviews you have published, and I intend to work my way through your publications. I'm currently in love with OCaml, but I'm resolving that D should be my next language. Funnily enough, I'd already downloaded it a few months ago; I have a dedicated flash drive for storing compilers, it was a very pleasant surprise to find Walter Bright already chilling in my memory.
I loved the podcast you did with Alexandrescu on GoingNative! The two of you said that you want D to have a million users; how does user accumulation work in programming languages? Intuitively, I'd expect linear growth until some critical point, and exponential thereafter. Do you agree? if so, what do you think that critical mass might be?
Also, on that same podcast, the host evaluated that D is ready for the million users you're shooting for. Do you have any plans to open a software shop or a consultancy to bring D into the industry? I've seen certain other language organizations, like the Haxe folks, do similar.
With regards to D-Lang: why do you ask that contributors assign copyright to you for improvements made to dmd? Is that just so you control the code-base?
Finally, I'd love to see a section of low-hanging fruit for novice contributors to work on. Whatever incentive it's worth: I will personally commit to fulfilling at least one item of any such list, if and when it should ever be published.
I'll be following D-Lang much more closely, I'm very excited to see how it evolves!
I figure critical mass is if I get run over by a bus, D will continue just fine. I don't know what that point is.
Many D community members do consultancy and education. Just drop by the forums and ask!
The copyright assignment thing is just so that the source will be unencumbered and we can ensure it remains fully Open Source.
I never offer suggestions for low hanging fruit anymore, as not a single person took them. I just point at the forums, hang out, and you'll soon find something interesting to work on.
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Advice for the novice. Hmm. Best advice I can give is ignore your critics and everyone who tells you it can't be done, you're not good enough, you'll inevitably fail.
Market research has always led me astray. Making things that simply please myself have been far, far more successful.
Which is my favorite language? D, of course! As for why, it's the language I always wanted to program in, though I didn't realize it and it was a process to discover it.
I've listened to the two interviews you have published, and I intend to work my way through your publications. I'm currently in love with OCaml, but I'm resolving that D should be my next language. Funnily enough, I'd already downloaded it a few months ago; I have a dedicated flash drive for storing compilers, it was a very pleasant surprise to find Walter Bright already chilling in my memory.
I loved the podcast you did with Alexandrescu on GoingNative! The two of you said that you want D to have a million users; how does user accumulation work in programming languages? Intuitively, I'd expect linear growth until some critical point, and exponential thereafter. Do you agree? if so, what do you think that critical mass might be?
Also, on that same podcast, the host evaluated that D is ready for the million users you're shooting for. Do you have any plans to open a software shop or a consultancy to bring D into the industry? I've seen certain other language organizations, like the Haxe folks, do similar.
With regards to D-Lang: why do you ask that contributors assign copyright to you for improvements made to dmd? Is that just so you control the code-base?
Finally, I'd love to see a section of low-hanging fruit for novice contributors to work on. Whatever incentive it's worth: I will personally commit to fulfilling at least one item of any such list, if and when it should ever be published.
I'll be following D-Lang much more closely, I'm very excited to see how it evolves!
I figure critical mass is if I get run over by a bus, D will continue just fine. I don't know what that point is.
Many D community members do consultancy and education. Just drop by the forums and ask!
The copyright assignment thing is just so that the source will be unencumbered and we can ensure it remains fully Open Source.
I never offer suggestions for low hanging fruit anymore, as not a single person took them. I just point at the forums, hang out, and you'll soon find something interesting to work on.
There's also the learn forum:
https://forum.dlang.org/group/learn