Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
by kibwen on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:06PM
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It's a bit of a stretch to cast corporate funding as a negative, especially when the direction of Swift/Rust/Go are all mostly directed by community consensus rather than the corporate middlemen signing the paychecks (see the Swift community's rejection of SE-0110, the Rust's community's rejection of struct inheritance, and the Go community's rejection of aliases). Given the opportunity I'm sure that D would delight in having a corporate sponsor; financial security of D development and infrastructure was a large part of the impetus for the D Language Foundation, after all. Casting sponsorship as "life support" when all three of these languages have thriving communities simply comes across as petty.
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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
by kal31dic on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:15PM
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It's much more anti-fragile to have corporations who sponsor projects (as do we) than one or two key official sponsors. And it suits D's breadth too, because there's no single company that uses D for everything that's possible to do with it. Makes sense for Google to sponsor Go. Who is supposed to sponsor a language with versatility that encompasses C,C++ and Python and runs on the gamut of platforms. A single sponsor using D on Linux might direct energy away from Windows and embedded...
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/05/31/project-highlight-excel-d/
Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
by jeffdavis on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:04PM
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Mozilla is not a normal corporation though. I donate, and I suspect many others do, as well. So maybe rust could be seen to have a lot of tiny sponsors rather than one big one?
Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
by steveklabnik on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:40PM
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D also has a foundation model, which could (I don't know anything about their financials) provide similar support to a company, but spread among companies instead.