On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 12:43:03 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 08:35:52 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
I'm working on a commercial IDE and GUI framework for a year
and half and I'm not able to release any version due to this
bug[1].
...
Please, stop adding new features to D and start fixing
existing ones.
- Satoshi
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[1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16590
You've got things reversed. The point of a company like Google
or Sun backing a language is that things get done, like this
bug fix, so that the language can be used for whatever that
company needs it to do.
You claim you want to make money off the language, yet you are
demanding that volunteers immediately fix a bug that is holding
you back. That's an odd business model. You have three options:
pay to fix it yourself, use a different language that allows
you to benefit from work paid for by more profitable companies
like Google, or wait for volunteers to do it on their schedule.
This is not unique to D. I'm reminded of Visual Studio not
supporting C99 or Firefox not supporting certain HTML 5
features.
That was what I thought to propose to him: he could found a
bounty. Bounties are for a product but the founder doesn't have
to be in the company or, like here, in the organization.
