What you use D for?

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Jesse Phillips wrote:

> On Sat, 17 May 2008 07:54:53 -0400, Tower  Ty wrote:
> 
>> Jesse Phillips Wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm agreeing with Vladimir, right now there is no market for a
>>> commercial IDE. D is gaining popularity, it is getting lots of good
>>> press and some bad. Complaints come around that D is missing this
>>> market, that it hasn't been polished enough to be used by anyone, see
>>> any of Ty Towers posts. And I'm sure that most everyone here would love
>>> to be able to push their employers to switch, but without a commercial
>>> IDE it is harder.
>>> 
>>> The point is you aren't likely to be making money with in the next year
>>> or two. Once you have completed it, you might have to keep it updated
>>> to the latest language features even if your not rolling in the dough.
>>> It might be important to consider if your company could eat the cost of
>>> development, I think there will be a market coming for D, but it could
>>> take awhile.
>> 
>> 
>> Exaggeration  indeed .  I answer the question honestly withwhat  I have
>> seen
>> 
>> I have not seen any evidence of  usage by even 200 people as yet. I have
>> not seen evidence of any appreciable development work being undertaken
>> at this time except on DWT . I don't know but I don't think the
>> development team is very big ,possibly only a handful .
>> 
>> D looks like an easily understandable and potentially very useable
>> programming language , simplifying a lot of the confusing superfluous
>> stuff of other languages.
>> 
>> By the same token getting in at the start can put you ahead of the game
>> as Walter added in his post above and  as much as I bitch  I would still
>> recommend a student study it . Valuable pointer to the future. You just
>> have to ignore the possessive protectionists who frequent the forums
>> 
>> Can't see how anyone could make a buck from another IDE for D
> 
> I agree, you did answer based on your observations, but I don't feel that
> I misrepresented your complaints either. You were correct in that there
> aren't the numbers to justify their time, right now. My post more about
> D's potential much like Walter's, though I don't know why my post was so
> late as I posted before 8. I wasn't trying to attack you, many share your
> views, but they aren't using D.

Considering that close to a 100 peoples (just names I know, there are others
without names) contributed to Tango so far, there definately are far more D
users out there than 200 - and most companies using D for commercial
development won't tell you in public. So whatever goes on in these news
group is _not_ accountable for even a small portion of total D activity.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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