Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 11:42:31 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 10:46:30 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>> I don't plan it and don't realistically ever expect it. 
>> Considering the fact that game development industry is 
>> traditionally one of the worst in contributing upstream I also 
>> don't have any motivation to convince them adopt D.
>>
>> If there ever appears a game development company / community 
>> interested in _investing_ into programming language that would 
>> be totally different story but also irrelevant to enterprise 
>> culture you refer to.
>
> We talk a lot of game developers here, and it's an interesting 
> target but there are many other native programmers stuck with 
> C++ and often unable to use anything else, in the many niches 
> of the world.

What I mean is that the very approach of "how are you going to 
sell D to X" is doomed to fail because when there is no real 
product to sell. Proper question would be "how are you going to 
invite X to collaborate on D" and with such mentality it is only 
practical to think about interests of people that are expected to 
give something back.

At some point I have hoped that Facebook would take over D as 
commercial project but this train has long been gone by now. I 
consider is good platform for tinkerers, for those willing to 
take the risk and go for in-house innovation - nothing more, 
nothing less.