On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 17:43:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 11/22/13 9:38 AM, Chris wrote:
On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 13:22:10 UTC, Chris wrote:
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.
To be clear, this doesn't mean that this is happening, it's
not, and it
is good that Facebook now uses D. But the two should be
separate. What D
does should not be influenced by any company.
Oh please.
Andrei
Yeah, you're right. Sometimes I get carried away and dramatize
things.
