Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Manu]

On 2 September 2013 05:44, Brian Schott <briancschott at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Well you can look at Remedy's experience. I've also sparked interest in
staff from a few other companies when talking to developers.
It'll never fly though if when they go to try it out, they're met with the
kind of experience I had on the weekend.
Don't underestimate how much people hate C++ these days.
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