On Friday, 20 April 2012 at 13:44:55 UTC, Manu wrote:
It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but I suspect there is
interest :)
Maybe if Walter and Andrei were to define some sort of consortium
like there is for Java, companies would be interested in
participating in the development ? I have no idea how it would
look like though, as that would mean a lot more organization and
overhead. We clearly don't work like that right now.
If IBM for example was helping D like they did for eclipse, the
traction
would be huge and the toolchain would stabilize so much
faster. :(
What exactly would mainstream developers do to stimulate such
traction, and
stabilise the toolchain as you are suggesting?
IBM has largely contributed to the development of the eclipse
environment. In fact, it started as one of their products, Visual
Age, that they open sourced, and this move was very successful.
