On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 22:20:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
I don't think Russel Winder was talking about enterprise code,
but for a language to take hold you need at least one
significant publicly visible application written in it.
E.g. Go has Docker, Rust has a Firefox engine, and so on... It
is taken as a sign of maturity.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with RW's post. My reading is
that the goal would be to get D into the enterprise, but maybe I
misinterpreted. If D as a successor to Vala leads to more
projects like Tilix, that's great. However, an easier way to
accomplish the same thing would be wrapping more C libraries,
writing better documentation for Dub, and so on. Incremental
improvements lead to incremental adoption of D. I'll also note
that Vala didn't catch on, so being the successor to Vala by
itself may not help D adoption.
