Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 14 December 2012 at 00:42:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Like any major user of a language, they want confidence in our 
> full support of them. Asking them to use a patched or branch 
> version of the compiler does not inspire confidence.
>

But nobody agreed here on supporting that ! It never was released 
!

> What I'm doing is hardly unique in business history. When 
> Boeing designed the 707, they showed the prototype to Pan Am, 
> their biggest potential customer. Pan Am wanted a slightly 
> wider fuselage. At enormous expense, Boeing threw out their 
> tooling and built all new tooling and a new design, all just to 
> make the sale to Pan Am. It paid off enormously for Boeing, 
> because with Pan Am buying 707s, the other airlines all 
> couldn't wait to buy them, too.
>

I'm pretty sure Boeing employee were informed and payed for that 
work. Here you have a community that is not informed and work on 
D on their free time.

> When Westinghouse had AC and Edison had DC, they competed for 
> the Niagra power project. Both knew that would be the lynchpin 
> of their industry, and both did whatever it took to get that 
> design win. Westinghouse got the contract, and that's why our 
> electrical grid is 60 Hz AC.
>

Considering the physics constraints, DC isn't even an option. 
Having the contract at the time would have simply delayed 
electricity deployment like we know now.

> Ok, we're not Boeing or Westinghouse. But we have an 
> opportunity to go big time, and I'm not going to let that get 
> away from us.

You'll go nowhere without a community.