My two cents

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 18:53:49 Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 23 October 2017 at 13:18:21 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
>
> wrote:
> >> By any means, if someone wants to help here, get in touch with
> >> Benjamin Thaut and me.
> >> This has been lingering around for way to long, and Benjamin
> >> alone has a hard time pushing this.
> >
> > Would Bountysource help be adequate?
>
> Not sure about Benjamin, but on my side it's time limited.
> I'd Bountysource didn't work out too well for us.

For it to work, it would likely either have to encourage developers who
aren't involved to get involved or provide enough money that developers who
are already involved could spend more time on D (e.g. because they're a
contractor and the money from a bounty was able to temporarily function as
their source of income). I don't think that either happened. Most of the
bounties were pretty small, and most full-time employees who work with D in
their free time are unlikely to be able to spend more time on D due to some
extra money, because time is the concern, not money. Best case, I'd expect
bountysource to encourage folks already working on D to work on something
specific, because they'd get a bit of extra money for it, but that doesn't
seem to have happened. I think that most of the folks contributing have
forgotten about bountysource entirely.

Anyone looking to help D grow via money is probably better off donating to
the D foundation - though whether this particular item is high enough of the
priority list for the D foundation to pay someone to work on it, I don't
know, and I don't know if there's someone with the appropriate skillset
who's available to be paid to work on it. The D Foundation is pretty new at
this (but the fact that it exists at all is a huge step forward).

There has been some interest in "improved DLL" support, which ties into
improving export on Windows, but there doesn't seem to have been a lot of
interest in actually working on it (at least not from folks with the time
to).

- Jonathan M Davis