D needs to get its shit together!

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 22:57:46 UTC, Mark wrote:
> On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 13:14:46 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
>> If you are interested in donations, there is such 
>> infrastructure, it's called the D Foundation.
>
> I imagine that it's not possible to make donations to the 
> foundation that are restricted for the use of advancing a 
> specific aspect of the language (e.g. tooling).

IANAL, but if you tie a monetary exchange to a specific service, 
it's not a donation, but payment for services (to be) rendered.

>
> I don't know if anyone is looking at the state of the ecosystem 
> from the persepctive of a corporation considering whether or 
> not to use D for some project.

I would imagine the people at Sociomantic do.

> Of course, such a perspective is immaterial if there is little 
> community interest in corporate adaption of D...

People who work on/with something in their free time for their 
own purposes are imho (rightfully) unlikely to care about 
catering to third party corporate interests.