cross post hn: (Rust) _ _ without GC

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 14:39:30 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:16:25 +0000
> Vic via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 04:06:33 UTC, ketmar via clip
>
> mind if i say that i don't give a shit about what "commercial 
> users"
> want? and the last thing i want is cutting out language 
> features. yes,
> "moving out of the core" == "cutting off". half-baked feature 
> annoys
> people, so eventually somebody will do something with it. 
> non-existant
> feature will remain non-existant for a long time.
>
> as for "commercial users", once again... they can choose 
> feature set
> they want and then... yeah, invest money and time in them. make 
> that
> selected features work flawlessly. i still can't see why 
> someone shoud
> care about "commercial users" that never invest anything except 
> "we
> want XXX".
>
> and i have a great way to know what "commercial users" really 
> wants:
> the things they are paying for. no, that's not working like "do 
> what we
> want and maybe we'll give you a cent or two". it's quite 
> contrary,
> actually: "here's the money we'll pay for what we want". FOSS 
> is not
> the box to which you shouting and then magically pulling the 
> results
> for free.

In fairness to commercial users though - and many have shown that
they are willing to put resources and money into open source
projects - they naturally need to feel that there is something
in it for them.  They need to believe that they are putting their
resources into a worthwhile project, that will eventually
benefit their commercial interests.

I have no doubt that if D could attract more commercial interest
it would ultimately be beneficial to the languages development.