We hit the ACM mailing list!!!

Pragma ericanderton at yahoo.removeme.com
Mon Jan 8 14:19:28 PST 2007


BCS wrote:
> 
> The internetnews.com artical just went out on the ACM TechNews mailing list

Awesome.  D's on a roll lately.

> What's the business model here?"

"Build it, and they will come."

Seriously, it's what the big guys did. :)

If a technology is good enough for everyone to use, and is what they've 
been looking for, then they'll likely use it - provided they can find 
out about it.  Thankfully, it's still easy to be heard on the Internet 
without having to shell out a megabuck, provided you have something 
halfway provocative or worthwhile to say.  Being able to say "It's c++, 
only readable and with a GC" or "Java without a VM" is more than enough 
to get people to read, even if they're only interested in debunking the 
claim.  After all, whiz-bang advertising is only good for getting 
attention for something people would tend to ignore in the first place.

Also, a language is just a tool and not the kind you can charge* for 
anyway.  Look at MS and Sun.  They put gobs of cash into their 
respective VM-based platforms and they still can't capitalize on them 
directly; they sell developer suites and training instead.

Walter has done nothing different - he built a better tool for next to 
nothing from which other, profitable, opportunities will arise.  The 
same could be said for any one of us with a D library or utility that 
plans on using that to provide a profitable service of some kind. 
Ultimately, the only major difference is one of scale - it's still the 
same model.

(* encumbering developer software, or even just proprietary language 
specifications, with expensive and/or restrictive licenses, tends to 
turn people off real quick.)

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- EricAnderton at yahoo



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