What you use D for?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Vladimir Panteleev" <thecybershadow at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:op.ua9fq9qam02fvl at cybershadow...
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:21:39 +0300, Arne <user at domain.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Are there comercial companys that use D? Are there persons that sit 8 
>> hours a day programming D to make theire living?
>
> There are (I freelance and program in D whenever I can), but probably less 
> than you expect.
>
> If you intend to make profit as soon as you release the product, IMHO 
> right now it's early for a commercial product targeted for developers, 
> because not enough "suits" know about D for it to have any kind of 
> corporate usage/support. On the other hand, one of the reasons why this is 
> not happening is the lack of a stable, productive platform/package with 
> available commercial support. D's toolchain is currently more than 
> sufficient, but new developers must acquire and study all the necessary 
> tools to become productive. Currently, I'm not aware of a package that 
> either contains or can download&install a compiler+builder, debugger, IDE, 
> additional libraries/packages, etc. - which is what (IMO) D needs most for 
> quick adoption. Given the speed of D's rising popularity and depending on 
> the development time, your IDE might hit the market at just the right 
> moment.
>

Sorry for this "me too" post, but I have to say: Vladimir hit the nail 
squarely on the head here. This is exactly correct on the state of things 
and what needs to happen.