D is dead

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 17:52:54 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 17:19:41 UTC, Ali wrote:
>> On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 16:22:54 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
>> wrote:
>>> On 23/08/18 17:01, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> My main job is to develop for Weka, not develop D itself.
>>
>> Weka, at some point, made the strategic decision to use a non 
>> mainstream language
>>
>> I dont think Weka, have a choice, they have to invest in the 
>> development of D itself
>
> I hope a startup can choose D without having to do that. 
> Otherwise D is not really a viable option for startups because 
> they need to focus on survival rather than language development.

What a joke: are you really arguing that every startup should 
have all their suppliers give them everything for free? Most 
startups pay a ton of money for their critical tools, money that 
pays for further development of those tools, including for 
bugfixes and features in the OSS projects they use (which they 
don't always open source). I'd wager that whatever Weka has spent 
on Johan to fix D is much less. Maybe Weka is simply learning 
they can't get away with that anymore.

What you _could_ argue is that the cost/benefit ratio of D ends 
up being too high compared to some mooted alternative with a 
bigger community, say C++ or Rust, but I think you'd have a tough 
time making that case.