On 11/22/13 9:38 AM, Chris wrote:
On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 13:22:10 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 12:34:23 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 10:29:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
Yes, yes, yes. You are of course right that corporate backing gives
a language a boost, even if it's a mediocre language. But as soon as
corporate thinking comes into a language (profit, ideology,
branding, hype and whatnot), it's doomed. D has to breathe, and I
admire all the people who have made D happen, and who are making it
happen. I've learned a lot just by listening (well, reading).
You're talking about corporate _management_ rather than corporate
backing. The former can obviously lead to problems (though it
doesn't have to) -- the latter is almost invariably good, as it means
there's someone who can serve as guarantor that any necessary work
will get done.
You cannot separate the two. Management will creep into development
sooner or later. E.g. one day D might implement features that have to
do with what Facebook needs more than features that programmers need
in general. So a module std.webshite.upload.latest.picture gets all
the attention while std.reallyhandy is being neglected.
To be clear, this doesn't mean that this is happening, it's not, and it
is good that Facebook now uses D. But the two should be separate. What D
does should not be influenced by any company.
Oh please.
Andrei
