D future ...

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 29/12/2016 2:08 AM, Satoshi wrote:
> 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.
>
> I know that :/  I'm just responding to people who wants shift D to
> commercial companies but are doing different steps than they should do.
>
> Yes, it's true that I want to make money off the language so I should
> paid for that fix but in other way you want to promote D to others and
> this is the thing what's holding me back to do the same. And the bug
> will be fixed anyway, so.

If you don't hear about any fixes coming from a core dev in the next day 
or so, contact Walter directly.