D : Not for me anymore

[Bill Baxter]

Knud Sørensen wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:44:03 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
>>> Walter is a true compiler expert, but I think he wants to leave the
>>> development of libraries to those who are more experienced with
>>> different kinds of frameworks. Besides, he already has more than enough
>>> work in extending the language and maintaining the compiler.
>> What I'm mindful of is I endorsed DWT as the official D gui library, 
>> which promptly killed it.
> 
> What about the library contest I suggested long ago ?? 
> Is that a useful idea?
> I did never get much feedback on that idea. 
> 
> http://all-technology.com/eigenpolls/dwishlist/index.php?it=59
> 

I worked at a small software company once where the marketing folks 
decided to have a big contest.  They advertised it software development 
magazines and everything.  Top prize was supposed to be like $10,000 
cash I think.  In the end, when the deadline came, we counted up all the 
submissions.  One... two.  That's it.  We got *two* submissions. 
Granted, they were pretty good, but I think in the end the marketing 
department decided to cancel the contest and gave the two entrants free 
copies of our software instead.  I was pretty embarrassed for the whole 
company.

Anyway, this is just to say, my experience with big prize programming 
contests for niche software has not been good.  And no matter how cool 
it is, you have to admit D is still pretty niche.

--bb