What is the D plan's to become a used language?

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On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 08:22:35 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" " wrote in message 
> news:aimenbdjdflzgkkteruk at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> Hardly, you have to be specific and make the number of issues 
>> covered in the next release small enough to create a feeling 
>> of being within reach in a short time span. People who don't 
>> care about fixing current issues should join a working group 
>> focusing on long term efforts (such as new features, syntax 
>> changes etc).
>
> Saying it will work doesn't make it so.

You need a core team, the core team needs to be able to cooperate 
on the most important features for the greater good. Then you 
have outside contributors with special interests, perhaps even 
educational (like a master student) that could make great long 
term contributions if you established work groups headed by 
people who knew the topic well.

More importantly: it makes no business sense to invest in an open 
source project that shows clear signs of being mismanaged. Create 
a spec that has business value, manage the project well and 
people with a commercial interest will invest. Why would I 
contribute to the compiler if I see no hope of it ever reaching a 
stable release that is better than the alternatives from a 
commercial perspective?