Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Sure, it would be great if dmd were completely open source, but I don't see why the fact that it isn't would be all that big a deal. Other languages - such as Java and C# - aren't open source (or at least weren't when they debuted). People used them in spite of the fact that they were proprietary. And yes, having a big company backing them has got to help, but how many people do you honestly think used Java because Sun made it?
I was around when Java burst onto the scene. Sun had enormous respect, and their creation of Java got them the buzz very similar to the buzz Go gets today from being from Google & Pike.
Sure, the fact that it was Sun helped, but they chose it because of the feature set, not the company that backed it. I don't think that I've ever met anyone who chose a language based on who created it.
Go?
