On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 21:34:53 UTC, RhyS wrote:
My question becomes, how is it possible that D supposedly only has a income of 3.2K ( opencollective ).
Well, one could aquire grants from Mozila through MOSS or The Linux Foundation for development. One could market D as the very next javascript through LLVM and WebAssembly, for which its actually really really good. Or, one could go with a few benchmarks of productivity, code quality and operation cost to one of the big companies with a lot of custom software running on cloudservers. Being able to say that your solution can approach C/C++ speeds while having java like development speeds and in general a better maintainability than java is a huge plus for them. They might want to invest in D so that they might have a better tool in one or two years, plus dedication from the community.
Granted, its not as simple as that. Goals need to be set, and the roadmap must become clear. And Andrei and Walter need to say yes or no to a plan from which they won't know if it'll neccesarily work out. But for exactly this, a manager for D would be perfect. Because the power of D is that the language must become better, even if that results in postphoning desparately wanted features. (Preffarably not)
