D future ...

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 08:35:52 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
> I'm working on a commercial IDE and GUI framework for a year 
> and half and I'm not able to release any version due to this 
> bug[1].

...

> Please, stop adding new features to D and start fixing existing 
> ones.
>
> - Satoshi
>
> ---
> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16590

You've got things reversed. The point of a company like Google or 
Sun backing a language is that things get done, like this bug 
fix, so that the language can be used for whatever that company 
needs it to do.

You claim you want to make money off the language, yet you are 
demanding that volunteers immediately fix a bug that is holding 
you back. That's an odd business model. You have three options: 
pay to fix it yourself, use a different language that allows you 
to benefit from work paid for by more profitable companies like 
Google, or wait for volunteers to do it on their schedule.

This is not unique to D. I'm reminded of Visual Studio not 
supporting C99 or Firefox not supporting certain HTML 5 features.