Who pays for all this?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/5/14, 7:28 PM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
> There are many languages which have grown more quickly than D (despite
> being less interesting) because they have a foundation where people can
> donate, or some company, which provides for the core developers.   I'm
> not saying that having a non-profit will magically generate money, but
> there are a few companies who use D out there who just might be willing
> to donate non-trivial sums of money to further development if there was
> a non-profit to see that the money was put to good use.
>
> Just to name a few:
>
> Python: https://www.python.org/psf-landing/
> Node.JS:  http://www.joyent.com/
> Perl: http://www.perlfoundation.org
> Linux Core Developers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation
> Ruby Core Developers: https://www.heroku.com (A subsidiary of Salesforce)

C++ also has a foundation since 2012: 
http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=671. It paid for CppCon 2014, which was 
very successful.

I believe a foundation would help D. Unfortunately, setting one up is 
very laborious, and neither Walter nor I know anything about that - from 
what I understand it takes a _lot_ of work. If anyone is able and 
willing to embark on creating a foundation for D, that would be a great 
help to the language and its community.


Andrei