Q: commercial compiler manufacturer

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:01:31 +0300, William Bolish <wwbolish at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Q: Will D likely ever be picked up by a major compiler manufacturer?
>
> The language looks really good, but without a major compiler manufacturer
> promoting & supporting the language, it seems major projects will never  
> be
> undertaken by large corporations.
>
> This is what I am hearing from the firm I am contracting with (an energy
> industry supplier).

Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP did not need corporate backing in order to become  
popular, AFAIK.

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net