D future ...
Satoshi via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 28 05:08:38 PST 2016
On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 12:43:03 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> 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.
I know that :/ I'm just responding to people who wants shift D
to commercial companies but are doing different steps than they
should do.
Yes, it's true that I want to make money off the language so I
should paid for that fix but in other way you want to promote D
to others and this is the thing what's holding me back to do the
same. And the bug will be fixed anyway, so.
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