An idea for commercial support for D

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 7 January 2015 at 12:00, via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 11:46:19 UTC, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>>
>> That is where the value-for-money factor comes in.  I cannot see any
>> traction occurring in Joakim's badly thought out idea unless you have
>> some *new* to give.
>
>
> I somehow feel that there is a commercial closed source opportunity in
> reducing the feature set somewhat (and fix critical bugs) then redo the
> memory model so that it performs well in production.
>

I feel that the same is for the reverse too.  If you remove features,
you again enter the realm of being another language.

There may be many implementation details that you can omit or improve,
such as how you go about dealing with closures, moduleinfo,
thread-local GC - but features listed in the D specification are not
optional.