Microsoft now giving away VS 2013

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On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 09:36:20 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 00:58:41 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-makes-visual-studio-free-for-small-teams/
>>
>> This is good news for D! It lowers the bar for writing 64 bit 
>> D code on Windows, and it also enables us to abandon support 
>> for versions of VS prior to 2013.
>
> Actually I think it makes the life harder to earn Windows 
> developers hearts for D, specially with .NET Native around the 
> corner (it will come in Windows 10).
>
> Free Visual Studio + C#/F# + SIMD + .NET Native is a very 
> enticing proposal.
>
> I would have a very hard time to convince any of our customers 
> to use D instead.
>
> --
> Paulo

Exactly my thoughts... also syntax sugar, compiled language was 
such a big argument to people use D instead of. But C# as an open 
source language (so the guys from UNIXes around can move to it) 
and native language, the C++ guys are going to move from C++ to 
C# not D. I don't know, but I'm not sure if this open source is 
good for D community.

And yeah I know there's Mono and it's open source from day 1. But 
it's the MS implementation.