D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 09:18:35 UTC, Laeeth isharc 
wrote:
>
> The innovator's dilemma, which is really an insight that dates 
> back to Toynbee, and before that Ibn Khaldun, is not so 
> obvious.  I am not sure that you have understood it.  I suggest 
> reading the book if you are interested, but otherwise I 
> unfortunately don't have so much time at the moment to try to 
> persuade you of what this phenomenon is like and there's 
> limited value to talking about talking rather than having a 
> discussion based on a shared understanding of what this is 
> about.

No, indeed I've not read about it (yet, it looks like a tale of 
our lives).

My market has indeed a distribution where the best customer 
brings 3:1 vs the average, it's not inf:1 like it would be in 
programming language "customers". "Impulse buy" is predominent 
too, which does not exist for technical decisions.

I understand that a few big players will bring a lot more than 
hundreds of smaller ones. Especially if the smaller ones keep 
writing on the D newsgroup :)

In my market too, I prefer if D is kind of unpopular! I don't 
tell details to competitors other than "works for me". And they 
aren't much interested, which is satisfying.

This secrecy has to be balanced by the fact we have to hire, and 
D being a critical piece of infrastructure I'd like it to simply 
receive more money, being a small player I contribute what I can 
to the Foundation - and direct others that came to Dplug to do so.