How is the D programming language financed?

[Justin Johansson]

On 23/12/10 22:06, Thomas Mader wrote:
> I would be interested in how the D programming language is financed as a
> project?
> As it seems the core projects at the moment are dmd, druntime and phobos.
> All of these are in a very active state with multiple contributors when
> judging the revision logs.
>
> I guess many of these contributors are volunteers but are there also
> people who get somehow money for their work?
>
> It's conceivable that Andrei, Walter and others get money for talks they
> give but is there anybody who can work on D fulltime without the need to
> do a daytime job beside it?
>
> I know that Andrei works as a research scientist for Facebook but how do
> other main contributors get their money?
>
> I wonder how people can manage to work on a fulltime job and on D.
>
> Who pays the needed infrastructure?
>
> Thomas

Hi Thomas,

You could give some credence to your post that you are simply not 
trolling by first posting a reasonable D language question on D.learn.

Cheers
Justin