Q: commercial compiler manufacturer

[Caligo]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Vladimir Panteleev
<vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net
>

They probably didn't, but it would have helped if there was a team of
paid developers working on them full-time.  We're not in a
resource-based economy yet, you know.