Ben Gertzfield is our 11th mentor

[Eric Poggel (JoeCoder)]

On 4/18/2011 9:20 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:

> What about successful languages like C(++) or Python? I think they were
> and still are pretty neutral (even though at least C and C++ were
> developed at a commercial company).

C++ is horrid but fast.  Python is beautiful but slow.  D is the best of 
both, or at least moving in that direction.

> So no, it's not a worthy goal to become Facebooks (or anybody elses)
> weapon (and nothing suggests they want that) and I personally would stop
> using D if something like that happened.

I don't understand how Facebook using it "as a weapon" could impair the 
freedoms we already enjoy with D.  AFAIK, everything except the back-end 
of one of the three compilers is open source and redistributable.