On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 12:34:23 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 10:29:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
Yes, yes, yes. You are of course right that corporate backing
gives a language a boost, even if it's a mediocre language.
But as soon as corporate thinking comes into a language
(profit, ideology, branding, hype and whatnot), it's doomed. D
has to breathe, and I admire all the people who have made D
happen, and who are making it happen. I've learned a lot just
by listening (well, reading).
You're talking about corporate _management_ rather than
corporate backing. The former can obviously lead to problems
(though it doesn't have to) -- the latter is almost invariably
good, as it means there's someone who can serve as guarantor
that any necessary work will get done.
You cannot separate the two. Management will creep into
development sooner or later. E.g. one day D might implement
features that have to do with what Facebook needs more than
features that programmers need in general. So a module
std.webshite.upload.latest.picture gets all the attention while
std.reallyhandy is being neglected.
