On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 10:30:47 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
More importantly: it makes no business sense to invest in an
open source project that shows clear signs of being mismanaged.
Create a spec that has business value, manage the project well
and people with a commercial interest will invest. Why would I
contribute to the compiler if I see no hope of it ever reaching
a stable release that is better than the alternatives from a
commercial perspective?
It is not clear that the core team wants commercial investment,
that's merely my guess of how D might become more polished and
popular. AFAICT, Andrei and Walter hope to get to a million
users mostly through volunteers, which is a pipe dream if you ask
me, though they don't appear to be against commercial
involvement. As you say, without presenting a more organized
front, maybe such commercial investment is unlikely.
