On 2014-10-06 04:09:26 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu said:
On 10/5/14, 7:28 PM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
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)
C++ also has a foundation since 2012:
http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=671. It paid for CppCon 2014, which was
very successful.
I believe a foundation would help D. Unfortunately, setting one up is
very laborious, and neither Walter nor I know anything about that -
from what I understand it takes a _lot_ of work. If anyone is able and
willing to embark on creating a foundation for D, that would be a great
help to the language and its community.
Andrei
I'm willing to put in the work if Walter is on board also. I don't
want to do all that work to end up being a DPL Foundation in name only.
-Shammah
