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[Daniel Gibson]

Am 19.04.2011 06:09, schrieb Eric Poggel (JoeCoder):
> On 4/18/2011 9:20 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> 
>> What about successful languages like C(++) or Python? I think they were
>> and still are pretty neutral (even though at least C and C++ were
>> developed at a commercial company).
> 
> C++ is horrid but fast.  Python is beautiful but slow.  D is the best of
> both, or at least moving in that direction.

Yeah my point was that languages can be successful without being
political, disproving Jasons "No successful platform is politically
neutral."

> 
>> So no, it's not a worthy goal to become Facebooks (or anybody elses)
>> weapon (and nothing suggests they want that) and I personally would stop
>> using D if something like that happened.
> 
> I don't understand how Facebook using it "as a weapon" could impair the
> freedoms we already enjoy with D.  AFAIK, everything except the back-end
> of one of the three compilers is open source and redistributable.
> 

Look at how Oracle is using Java as a weapon..
And probably the development of D would be focused on their goals and
everything else would be neglected (like for example Oracle neglects
Java for game development). And even though the front end currently is
Open Source that could  be changed for future versions.

But this discussion is quite pointless, nothing suggests that Facebook
plans to use D or any other technology as a weapon or for vendor
lock-ins - in the contrary, they made some great Open Source
contributions in the past. And nothing suggests that Walter is
interested in something like this.

Cheers,
- Daniel