Q: commercial compiler manufacturer

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 06/03/2011 11:01 PM, William Bolish wrote:
> Q: Will D likely ever be picked up by a major compiler manufacturer?
>
> The language looks really good, but without a major compiler manufacturer
> promoting&  supporting the language, it seems major projects will never be
> undertaken by large corporations.
>
> This is what I am hearing from the firm I am contracting with (an energy
> industry supplier).
>
> Any suggestions from anyone about any very large projects underway would be
> appreciated.
>
> Walter and Andrei: how would you approach / answer this to a client?

Brad gave a sensible response. If I were asked, I'd point out that we 
are making serious headways with the GNU compiler suite integration; I 
hope we'll have some news soon about that.

Beyond that, a company looking for a safe bet would find it difficult to 
choose D at this point. The first large adopter of D would have to be an 
organisation willing to take some risk and bear the brunt of building 
some infrastructure, to get the strategic advantages of using a superior 
language in return.


Andrei