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[Kyle Furlong]

kenny wrote:
> lol, I dunno. I don't think there is one. Perhaps he was referring to 
> the idea that google uses python extensively and ruby has rails.
> 
> Those aren't business models though. IMO D will start to gain publicity 
> soon as soon as mainstream apps and companies start to use D for 
> development.
> 
> I'm sure I'm not the only person pushing my company's development to 
> switch to D. As more companies adopt D as a development platform, it 
> will become "normal" to use D. In the future I will also open source our 
> software. Again, I'm sure that others will do this too. These sorts of 
> steps are huge for the "success" of D as a language.
> 
> ---------------
> 
> One of mozilla's major successes is it's collaboration with google. 
> Because of the sponsorship, mozilla now has enough resources to fund all 
> kinds of development. Because D is not an application that will be 
> difficult -- but if D can be used as an integral component to a revenue 
> generating application, I think D will have a "business model" -- in the 
> author's method of thinking.
> 
> Just thinking off of the top of my head, perhaps, if there was someone 
> willing to maintain a patch to DMD that compiles the files into memory 
> (writable,executable PE section), then DMD could be used by games for AI 
> and general scripting. (compiled in real time) That'd be super cool -- 
> like lua but better. If someone made that proposal to a game company, 
> things could start generating revenue that way, or at least a larger 
> exposure because of modders. I dunno.
> 
> Surely there has to be more ideas. I'll have to keep thinking.
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> kenny wrote:
>>> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652176
>>>
>>> standard article. Interesting thought at the end.
>>
>> Re: the thought at the end.  What was the business model behind Python 
>> or Ruby?
>> Perhaps
>>     -- Daniel

Now *there's* a codebase that could use a rewrite in D. (Mozilla)