D vs Go in real life

[Chris]

On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 13:22:10 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 12:34:23 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling wrote:
>> On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 10:29:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> Yes, yes, yes. You are of course right that corporate backing 
>>> gives a language a boost, even if it's a mediocre language. 
>>> But as soon as corporate thinking comes into a language 
>>> (profit, ideology, branding, hype and whatnot), it's doomed. 
>>> D has to breathe, and I admire all the people who have made D 
>>> happen, and who are making it happen. I've learned a lot just 
>>> by listening (well, reading).
>>
>> You're talking about corporate _management_ rather than 
>> corporate backing.  The former can obviously lead to problems 
>> (though it doesn't have to) -- the latter is almost invariably 
>> good, as it means there's someone who can serve as guarantor 
>> that any necessary work will get done.
>
> You cannot separate the two. Management will creep into 
> development sooner or later. E.g. one day D might implement 
> features that have to do with what Facebook needs more than 
> features that programmers need in general. So a module 
> std.webshite.upload.latest.picture gets all the attention while 
> std.reallyhandy is being neglected.

To be clear, this doesn't mean that this is happening, it's not, 
and it is good that Facebook now uses D. But the two should be 
separate. What D does should not be influenced by any company.