On 2014-10-05 03:33:36 +0000, Walter Bright said:
We're not really limited by lack of funds, but more by lack of focussed effort. If anyone wants to contribute funds, probably the best use would be to add bug bounties for bugzilla issues that they find to be neglected. The bounties don't really compensate at professional rates, but they do work as a nice "thanks" to those who donate their valuable time.
I've placed a couple of anonymous bounties, but I personally think it's a bad way to get directed focused effort. A democracy of people trying to get what they individually want done through small donations?
There are many languages which have grown more quickly than D (despite being less interesting) because they have a foundation where people can donate, or some company, which provides for the core developers. I'm not saying that having a non-profit will magically generate money, but there are a few companies who use D out there who just might be willing to donate non-trivial sums of money to further development if there was a non-profit to see that the money was put to good use.
Just to name a few: Python: https://www.python.org/psf-landing/ Node.JS: http://www.joyent.com/ Perl: http://www.perlfoundation.org Linux Core Developers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation Ruby Core Developers: https://www.heroku.com (A subsidiary of Salesforce) -S
