Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

[Ty Tower]

Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:

> I suppose you already made your decision, but as mentioned, a question in
> the forum would have given you more information on this. DDBI has moved
> very slowly over the last 18 months, but is being picked up again now, and
> will hopefully have a new release soonish. DDBI in trunk is now Tango only,
> but should work with DMD 1.028/29.

> I won't critize your company for making the choice it did, as it obviosly
> will need to earn money, but I don't see how you can expect the community
> to do what you want it to do with getting involved yourself. 

He has just done so?

>At the very
> least the community needs to know what you as a potential user needs from
> the project, so that tasks can be prioritized. Most of D still being open
> source, one cannot normally expect anything to happen without contributing
> self at some level. Posting your summary here may or may not help, but
> going to the specific project will always be best. Not all in the D
> community follow these newsgroups regularly.

He has just told you !
> 
> An example of how I think a company could get involved to help D move on, is
> how the work I will do on DDBI is sponsored (part time) by a company that
> plans to use D commerically. In light of that, now may be the right time to
> get involved in that particular project.
>

Give me some money and I will help you !

  
> > I think some serious attention needs to be focused on this, rather than
> > the minutiae of the latest cool language feature.  I have been following D
> > for some years now, hoping it would all come together --- and I hope it
> > does, soon --- as it feels D is being left in the dust.
> 
> Tools situation may have stagnated, but I'm not sure you have followed Tango
> too closely :)
> 
> -- 
> Lars Ivar Igesund
> blog at http://larsivi.net
> DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
> Dancing the Tango

This is a typical of a lot of what like to call themselves "The D Community"
They are more interested in attacking the messenger.

Torhu says as well that DBI should work with 1.029 etc etc but has he checked? Has Lars checked?  Obviously Bill checked and it didn't .

 If you aren't sure why post?

>From what I have seen it is a mess but listening to people like this and DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT would be a good start . Don't start on me ! I am still here and contributing with posts wherever I see stupidity, or where somethiong does not work properly, but I am no master programmer so I can't fix it.