Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

[Joakim]

Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time 
paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this new 
funding:

https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/08/07/nim-partners-with-status.html

D should also be trying to raise resources like this, though it 
doesn't have to be corporate funding from one source. This 
company funding Nim raised $100 million in an ICO last year to 
build some kind of cryptocurrency-oriented mobile apps platform:

https://www.inc.com/brian-d-evans/status-ico-raised-over-100-million-for-ethereum-powered-dapps-on-ios-and-androi.html

There are risks, of course. This company could flame out, like 
many of these new cryptocurrency companies do, leaving Nim 
without ongoing funding. Their priorities may not align with the 
Nim core team.

However, there are other ways to raise funds. Companies using D 
could use the existing bountysource page to put up bounties for 
features/fixes or projects they need, to which community members 
who need some particular feature/fix could also donate:

https://www.bountysource.com/teams/d

There are two primary factors in the success of any project, 
design and resources. I'm reasonably happy with the design of D 
and how technical decisions are being made. I think this is a 
core strength of D.

However, it appears the D core team has so far been doing a 
horrible job in gathering resources for the project. I'm not 
privy to any internal discussions or if this is being discussed 
at all. But it needs to be a priority for the ongoing growth of 
this project.