On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 14:38:54 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 14:26:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
Seeing as Rust is more or less a direct competitor to D, this
is somewhat worrying. This suggests that the Rust devs (by
that I mean people in the community that submit pulls) are
able to iterate far faster than we are, and the gap between D
and Rust is quickly closing.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd - "77
contributors"
https://github.com/mozilla/rust - "392 contributors"
I am not surprised.
Also AFAIK Mozlla has a team of paid full-time programmers
working on it, something D can only dream about.
Yes, it's not due to lack of talent in the D community, just
numbers. This is why it is so worrying.
