On 4/18/2011 9:20 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
What about successful languages like C(++) or Python? I think they were and still are pretty neutral (even though at least C and C++ were developed at a commercial company).
C++ is horrid but fast. Python is beautiful but slow. D is the best of both, or at least moving in that direction.
So no, it's not a worthy goal to become Facebooks (or anybody elses) weapon (and nothing suggests they want that) and I personally would stop using D if something like that happened.
I don't understand how Facebook using it "as a weapon" could impair the freedoms we already enjoy with D. AFAIK, everything except the back-end of one of the three compilers is open source and redistributable.
