On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 07:18:43 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 04:57:11 UTC, Joakim wrote:
It is amazing that D has gotten so far as an OSS project
without commercial backing, a credit to the engineering sense
of Walter and the core team. But I don't think you can
organize your way around that fundamental obstacle.
I don't think that is accurate at all.
Which part? There's at least three statements there, one largely
factual, one opinion, then a prediction. It's unclear what you
think is inaccurate, since you don't say.
But paid work will make it easier to get the boring or
difficult parts done. Hobby programmers will gravitate towards
the fun parts and copying the design of others (e.g. Linux
copying Unix).
For D, the difficult part is completing the language on paper.
It is human nature to push difficult parts are into the future,
but one should actually say "no more work on easy parts, we
have to do the difficult parts first". And that takes decisive
leadership.
Implementing is the easy part.
I wouldn't say D has pushed the difficult parts, and often
implementing takes a lot of work too. Obviously, the design is
usually more important in the long-term, but the design "on
paper" won't matter if nobody wants to implement it.
