Microsoft now giving away VS 2013

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 20:22:30 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> ...
>
> Good point and it also answers the main question about D - to 
> become popular there need to be tools written in D. In fact I 
> wrote a couple at work, simple beasts that do one thing and do 
> it well.
>
> Problem is we need OpenSource and General Purpose. For instance 
> a general purpose build tool might be a killer app. There are 
> plenty of other good things to write in D but efficient batch 
> processing tools/CLI are the current sweet spot (IMHO).


I guess D's adoption depends on those that can somehow push it in 
their workplace.

For me, I have came to realize there is no use for D in the 
JVM/.NET/Mobile ecosystems I work with.

The way we select programming languages, even within those 
ecosystems, have nothing to do with language bullet features, 
rather with human factors and whatever technology stack is 
already in place, or requested by the customer.

This does not apply only to D, but to all other languages out 
there. For example, we never used anything other than JavaScript 
on the browser side for our web projects.

And keeping up with all of that, requires a lot of time already.

--
Paulo