Why is D unpopular?

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 9 November 2021 at 08:32:07 UTC, arco wrote:

> Rust also started as a one man show (Graydon Hoare). Mozilla 
> initially supported it as a research project, not as a large 
> investment, and its resources are limited anyway compared to 
> the likes of Google. The comparison holds in my opinion, it's 
> what came after that made the difference.

This is an interesting interpretation of history. By the end of 
2014, the Rust core team had eight members, at least seven of 
whom were hired by Mozilla to work on getting the language in 
order for the 1.0 release: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20141225072631/https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-core-team

But that understates the funding. They had the Servo team, many 
of whom used paid hours to work on Rust*, and paid interns.

\* Even when these were not direct contributions to the language, 
being paid to work on Servo meant they were paid to test the 
language, find bugs, and identify areas needing improvement.