Interestingly, what goes along with the discussion about the perception of D as a language is what happened to IronPython and IronRuby. Microsoft initially showed a whole lot of support for those two languages, and assembled teams to work on both. That caused a big surge in their popularities. Of course, later Microsoft kinda lost interest and IronRuby was first "dropped" and recently Microsoft announced it was no longer supporting IronPython. So, I think having a strong community behind an open-source language is desirable instead of having corporate support. Because of their communities, the IronPython and IronRuby projects are still alive right now.
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]>wrote: > dsimcha wrote: > >> == Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article >> >>> van Rossum's. And on and on. (Perl, Python, Ruby, have only one >>> implementation.) >>> >> >> Nitpick (since your overall post was mostly on target): Python has Jython >> and >> IronPython and PyPy. Ruby has JRuby and IronRuby. >> > > Those came along *much* later, like more than a decade *after* those > languages were successful. >
