On Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 21:42:33 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Even one paid developer makes a big difference. You don't need
hundreds. Making the problem harder is that many current D
users don't have an interest in those tools. Therefore you're
drawing from a small pool of part-time volunteer labor.
It's entirely up to the community. This is not something Walter
or Andrei should be concerned with. I had hoped the D
Foundation would lead to a better organization of the
community, but to this point, that doesn't seem to be the case.
It was my impression that D Foundation has sponsoring from
different companies. No clue how much but its strange to run a
Foundation and not being able to pay one or more full time
employees.
I just looked up some community sourced project:
Nim gets on average 1500 to 2000$ per month
Crystal seems to be doing 2000 to 3000$ per month
That is only counting salt.bountrysource and no direct donations.
Just noticed this thread on Reddit and somebody asked about D.
http://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-languages-by-github-users/
According to the author off the ranking:
18. Rust 0.73%
58. D... 0.047%
No wonder that Rust seems to be more popular and D seems to
struggle in popularity.
