D future ...

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On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 12:43:03 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 08:35:52 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
>> I'm working on a commercial IDE and GUI framework for a year 
>> and half and I'm not able to release any version due to this 
>> bug[1].
>
> ...
>
>> Please, stop adding new features to D and start fixing 
>> existing ones.
>>
>> - Satoshi
>>
>> ---
>> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16590
>
> You've got things reversed. The point of a company like Google 
> or Sun backing a language is that things get done, like this 
> bug fix, so that the language can be used for whatever that 
> company needs it to do.
>
> You claim you want to make money off the language, yet you are 
> demanding that volunteers immediately fix a bug that is holding 
> you back. That's an odd business model. You have three options: 
> pay to fix it yourself, use a different language that allows 
> you to benefit from work paid for by more profitable companies 
> like Google, or wait for volunteers to do it on their schedule.
>
> This is not unique to D. I'm reminded of Visual Studio not 
> supporting C99 or Firefox not supporting certain HTML 5 
> features.

That was what I thought to propose to him: he could found a 
bounty. Bounties are for a product but the founder doesn't have 
to be in the company or, like here, in the organization.