Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 09:03:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> As a counter-point to the "downer" on financial institutions 
> and contributing back, it perhaps should be noted that Goldman 
> Sachs did release their Java data structures framework as FOSS, 
> but I think it hasn't gained much traction. Also there is Jane 
> Street Capital's contributions to OCaml.

I think big corporations releasing internal frameworks doesn't 
add much in general. They often "change the language" by 
requiring programmers to adapt a specific paradigm on a very 
basic level that has been aggregated over time. Even Qt and moc 
has such issues.

Internal libraries can sometimes be reworked to something more 
general, but frameworks are usually a waste of time if it has not 
been used by a very large number of projects while being 
developed.

> Python has a number of organizations contributing to Python and 
> library development who get their income by training or 
> consulting to financial institutions.

*nods*

So you basically need very large scale adoption before you get 
the benefits. Which kind of makes it irrelevant in this context, 
where the goal is to gain traction.