Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

XavierAP n3minis-git at yahoo.es
Fri Jul 19 22:20:04 UTC 2019


On Friday, 19 July 2019 at 21:32:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 09:03:50PM +0000, XavierAP via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> Still the only problem with D is ultimately low adoption. It 
>> has many causes, lack of corporate sponsor, of promotion, and 
>> other unknowable or random ones. Weird shit feeds back 
>> negatively, if it causes friction when people consider 
>> adopting, because if adoption was higher weird shit could be 
>> fixed in reasonable time.
>
> I think it's a big assumption that adoption would make fixing 
> weird sh*t easier.  It could be that it's inherently hard, 
> given the current language and implementation, and higher 
> adoption isn't going to help with that.

At least in the sense that it would make much more manpower 
available. There's lots of issues identified (even avoiding 
breaking changes conservatively as Bachmeier mentions) that 
aren't solved because no one's working on them.


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