On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 05:35:48AM +0200, Ramon wrote: [...] > I'm sorry, honestly sorry, that I myself can not (yet) contribute > much more than thoughts and constructive(!) criticism. I'm working > on it and - thanks to Iain (I was just a split second away from > leaving D) - I stayed. That's not much but it's the best I can give > as a D newbie and it's much more than just leaving like so many > before me. [...]
Don't be sorry; D is really not *that* hard to learn (it's certainly simpler than C++, speaking from my experience!). Once you get a good grip on it, start making pull requests. Make the changes you'd like to see happen. That's what I'm doing. I see a lot of flaws and problems in various areas, but I don't see much value in complaining -- it often only makes people angry and the problem still remains. Instead, I tell myself, OK, I may not know everything about D, but I do know *something* about programming, so I'm going to make the code changes and submit them. If they don't like it, then it's a good opportunity for me to learn how to make my code changes better; if they accept it, even better, I made a difference. I find that it's much more convincing for me to say "feature X is broken, here's the code change to make it better", than to say "feature X is broken, D sucks, you lazy bums better start working to fix X or else I'm leaving". It feels good to rant and get it off my chest, but it feels even better to have my changes merged and feature X to get fixed because of me. T -- Latin's a dead language, as dead as can be; it killed off all the Romans, and now it's killing me! -- Schoolboy
