On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 07:54:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
By the reasoning in the essay, I don't expect this to be solved
for free: the solution is for the devs behind the IDEs, Visual
Studio, DlangIDE, etc., to charge money for a streamlined
process. Why hasn't this happened yet?
There are such commercial support options for every other major
OSS language, someone will have to do this for D at some point
for it to take the next step.
Something like Anaconda could serve as a business model. Free
basic download, but then enterprise-level support and offerings
for additional money.
It doesn't even need to be offered as a profit-making entity at
first. Charge enough to cover slightly more than costs
(programmer time, etc.) and donate the rest to the D foundation.
