Is D still alive?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:26:56 -0500, Simen kjaeraas  
<simen.kjaras at gmail.com> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:16:54 -0500, Walter Bright  
>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>> I can't buy "enterprise" support,
>>>
>>> Of course you can!
>>
>> No really, I can't afford it ;)
>>
>> But seriously, I find it hard to believe that you can buy enterprise  
>> support for D if it means that you do the work.  There's only one you.   
>> So at some point, you might be spread too thin between adding new  
>> features, posting to this newsgroup, and supporting all enterprise  
>> customers.
>
> Even if that is the case, Walter is free to hire others to do the
> enterprise work for him.

Again, there's only one Walter.  Throwing warm bodies at a problem doesn't  
always solve it ;)

I for one would have a hard time being a full-time enterprise support  
developer for compiler software.

That being said, he does work at a compiler company, so I suppose he  
probably has better access to compiler-savvy folks...

-Steve