Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Brian Schott]

On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 18:36:39 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> I think at this point, what D needs is a bit of commercial 
> support from a company like JetBrains or some equivalent. Maybe 
> there is now an opportunity for founding such a company, one 
> that would specialize in building professional tools around the 
> D language. I believe the language and the compilers are stable 
> enough to grow a serious business around them. If we compare to 
> what the state of C++ compilers was before 2000, I believe we 
> are much better off. And that was just over a decade ago. Who 
> knows what the state of D will be in 5 years ? So yes, there is 
> a case to be made for growing a company around pro D tools, and 
> the first company that does it will grab the whole market.

It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. I'd like to do this, but 
there would have to be several companies already using D 
professionally for it to be a viable business model. And for a 
company to invest in D, they'd probably want the tooling to 
already exist.