Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Chris]

On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 18:02:21 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 16:32:15 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 16:15:37 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
>>> On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 14:26:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 13:48:42 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 09:36:43 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Who's going to pay for the factory?
>>>>> -Alex
>>>>
>>>> That's for the D Foundation to figure out. There's a reason 
>>>> we have a D Foundation now, isn't there?
>>>
>>> The annual monthly budget is around 4K$.
>>> https://opencollective.com/dlang#
>>> -Alex
>>
>> "annual monthly?" Look again:
>>
>> https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1#H2_2017_Review
>
> I merely using the value that the open collective site have 
> give me. Regardless $1605 far from enough money to hire full 
> time workers, as chris has suggested.
>
> -Alex

Then the D Foundation should work on it. Get companies on board 
etc. All I hear is "we don't have enough money, we depend on the 
good will of our community members..." Then leave it. There's no 
way D can compete with languages that are backed by companies and 
that have additional benefits like targeting Android, iOS and the 
Web, e.g. Kotlin. What does D have to offer? Sure, nice features, 
but what's the point if you cannot use the language anywhere you 
like and have broken basics like autodecode? Also, some of the 
nice features (the more useful ones) are adopted by other 
languages as time goes by. So there will remain no compelling 
reason to choose D over other languages - if it goes on like this.