On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 23:45:10 UTC, Mark wrote:
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 20:04:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Also, a lot of this polish is missing because D is an OSS
project that doesn't have corporate involvement driving it.
No pure OSS project without heavy corporate involvement has
ever gotten everywhere, you will find corporate hands all over
everything from the linux kernel to gcc to Python. D has
some, but not that much yet. It is amazing how far it has
gotten without it.
Why not, really? All due respect to Sociomantic, Weka, etc.,
but I'm suprised there isn't more coporate interest in the
language.
Since the complaints here seem largely related to Windows
integration, Sociomantic is only on linux, to the point where
their D stdlib, Ocean, only runs on linux, same as their
concurrent GC. Weka is doing their own hardware, doubt they're
using Windows on there. ;) I think even Laeeth, whose hedge fund
has sponsored some work like Excel-D, said they don't use Windows
much.
I too am mystified there isn't more corporate backing. However,
there are always other avenues, like bounties
(https://www.bountysource.com/teams/d/backers), donations to the
D foundation (http://dlang.org/foundation), or private paid work
that's eventually open-sourced, so there are many ways to build D
up.
