D vs Rust

Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jan 28 15:42:41 PST 2016


On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 23:28:04 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 23:18:34 UTC, Ola Foaheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> D depends on two people
>
> I disagree with this. Even if Walter Bright and Andrei 
> Alexandrescu both suddenly decided to go join the Amish 
> tomorrow, D would go on.
>
> Just because D development is currently *controlled* by two 
> people doesn't mean that no one else is willing or able to 
> replace them, if the need/opportunity arose.

Yeah, a few years ago D definitely had a Bus Factor of one but 
Walter (and Andrei) have successfully delegated and opened it up 
enough that if the worst should happen I think D could still move 
forward.


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