Marketing D [ was Re: GCC 4.6 ]

[Jimmy Cao]

Interestingly, what goes along with the discussion about the perception of D
as a language is what happened to IronPython and IronRuby.  Microsoft
initially showed a whole lot of support for those two languages, and
assembled teams to work on both.  That caused a big surge in their
popularities.  Of course, later Microsoft kinda lost interest and IronRuby
was first "dropped" and recently Microsoft announced it was no longer
supporting IronPython.  So, I think having a strong community behind an
open-source language is desirable instead of having corporate support.
 Because of their communities, the IronPython and IronRuby projects are
still alive right now.

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:

> dsimcha wrote:
>
>> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>>
>>> van Rossum's. And on and on. (Perl, Python, Ruby, have only one
>>> implementation.)
>>>
>>
>> Nitpick (since your overall post was mostly on target):  Python has Jython
>> and
>> IronPython and PyPy.  Ruby has JRuby and IronRuby.
>>
>
> Those came along *much* later, like more than a decade *after* those
> languages were successful.
>
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