Fantastic exchange from DConf

Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed May 17 23:53:50 PDT 2017


On Thursday, 18 May 2017 at 00:58:31 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 5/17/17 8:27 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> What will cause a shift is a continuous business loss.
>
> If business A and B are competing in the same space, and 
> business A has a larger market share, but experiences a 
> customer data breach. Business B consumes many of A's 
> customers, takes over the market, and it turns out that the 
> reason B wasn't affected was that they used a memory-safe 
> language.
>
> The business cases like this will continue to pile up until it 
> will be considered ignorant to use a non-memory safe language. 
> It will be even more obvious when companies like B are much 
> smaller and less funded than companies like A, but can still 
> overtake them because of the advantage.
>
> At least, this is the only way I can see C ever "dying". And of 
> course by dying, I mean that it just won't be selected for 
> large startup projects. It will always live on in low level 
> libraries, and large existing projects (e.g. Linux).
>
> I wonder how much something like D in betterC mode can take 
> over some of these tasks?
>
> -Steve

Is there any other way other than to do good work that's 
recognised as such and happens to be written in D? And I guess 
open sourcing dmd back end will make it a more acceptable 
language for such in time.


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