dmd platform support - poll

[Walter Bright]

Don wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
>> Agreed.
>>
>> D may be successful in areas we don't necessarily predict or prefer, 
>> and .NET is just one of several interesting possibilities to explore.  
>> Therefore, I don't think we should get too tunnel-visioned about "D is 
>> better because it's a compiled language".
> 
> I agree. I don't see the point of VM's, but D should be better because 
> it's a better language. Not because of how the compiler is implemented.

Not only do I agree as well <g>, but I want to emphasize John's point 
that we can't predict what opportunities will come from D being on .NET. 
I've run into a lot of programmers lately who, if a language isn't on 
.NET, will not look at it. .NET has a huge and growing market presence. 
There are a lot, and I mean a lot, of .NET developers, and to ignore 
them is shortsighted.

I can almost guarantee that people will find surprisingly cool uses to 
put D.NET to. Look at all the things Don has done with string mixins 
that never occurred to me!

Aside from that, the more platforms D is on, the more 'real' the 
language will be, and the more confident developers will be in risking 
using it.