Dscanner - DCD - Dfix ... Editor support or the lack of it.

[Benny]

On Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 21:42:33 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> Even one paid developer makes a big difference. You don't need 
> hundreds. Making the problem harder is that many current D 
> users don't have an interest in those tools. Therefore you're 
> drawing from a small pool of part-time volunteer labor.
> 
> It's entirely up to the community. This is not something Walter 
> or Andrei should be concerned with. I had hoped the D 
> Foundation would lead to a better organization of the 
> community, but to this point, that doesn't seem to be the case.

It was my impression that D Foundation has sponsoring from 
different companies. No clue how much but its strange to run a 
Foundation and not being able to pay one or more full time 
employees.

I just looked up some community sourced project:

Nim gets on average 1500 to 2000$ per month
Crystal seems to be doing 2000 to 3000$ per month

That is only counting salt.bountrysource and no direct donations.


Just noticed this thread on Reddit and somebody asked about D.

http://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-languages-by-github-users/

According to the author off the ranking:

18. Rust 0.73%
58. D... 0.047%

No wonder that Rust seems to be more popular and D seems to 
struggle in popularity.