Re: An idea for commercial support for D

2018-02-03 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 13:14:04 UTC, rjframe wrote: Except it doesn't. The GPL can be used to keep a competitor from stepping up and using your work to create an alternative product, allowing you to have a mixed open/closed model without worrying about competition. Many companies

Re: Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

2018-02-03 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 15:33:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Who is your management mentor? It is making your job harder if you are trying to teach yourselves purely from experience. Been there done that, made much better progress after reading: In my experience, there is nothing worse

Re: My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

2018-02-03 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 22:59:06 UTC, Dgame wrote: This is a nice, refreshing post. You state problems and why you switched to Go. You give a ton of informations (here and in your prior posts) why you did what you did and what problems you've seen. This could be used to improve D. But

Re: My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

2018-02-03 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 04:16:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/2/2018 7:06 AM, Benny wrote: Other languages have slogans, they have selling points. When i hear Go, you hear uniformal, fast, simple syntax language. When i hear Rust, you hear safe, manual memory management. When i

Re: An idea for commercial support for D

2018-02-03 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 10:49:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: And what we find is that when you allow such mixing with permissively-licensed projects (that the GPL makes much more difficult), . I've never been a fan of the GPL.. until I read this thread. It may well be, that more and more

Re: My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

2018-02-02 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 15:06:35 UTC, Benny wrote: Other languages have slogans, they have selling points. When i hear Go, you hear uniformal, fast, simple syntax language. When i hear Rust, you hear safe, manual memory management. When i hear D, you hear ... ... ... ... When i hear

Re: My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

2018-02-02 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 15:06:35 UTC, Benny wrote: I am personally confused with D's message. I think that point hits the cause of your problem with D (along with your need to 'choose' something over 'something' else). Stop looking for the meaning of D .. and start experiencing it.

Re: An idea for commercial support for D

2018-02-02 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 08:56:04 UTC, Joakim wrote: So given that all your claims are easily logically proven to be nonsense, there's no point in going any further. You need to do better than that to convince me ;-) Now.. I might entertain a model of paying someone, *after* they had

Re: Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

2018-02-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:25:47 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:15:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 17:13:52 UTC, Seb wrote: curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd Yeah..let's all run an untrusted shell script

Re: Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

2018-02-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 17:13:52 UTC, Seb wrote: curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd Yeah..let's all run an untrusted shell script (with unknown contents), right off the web. Will people never learn?

Re: An idea for commercial support for D

2018-02-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 08:43:46 UTC, Joakim wrote: ... My time-limited model makes sure all source is made open eventually, once the developers have been paid for their work. This deceptive hybrid model (based I my understanding of it per the description above) is really

Re: On reddit: Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

2018-02-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 09:51:16 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:57:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7udfs4/is_anyone_replacing_c_with_d/ I think what will get people really interested in D, is an updated book

Re: On reddit: Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

2018-02-01 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:57:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7udfs4/is_anyone_replacing_c_with_d/ I think what will get people really interested in D, is an updated book from Andrei. I'm sure plenty of people (particulary C++ programmers)

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