On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 17:55:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I think at this stage we need more people to start with.
Someone pointed out recently we have 77 lifetime contributors
to github, as opposed to e.g. Rust which has 292.
It's unfortunate that D's biggest competitor is Rust. Being
pushed by Mozilla means they automatically have access to a
larger pool of contributors that contribute to other Mozilla
stuff, who probably wouldn't have contributed to Rust otherwise.
However, I think DDMD will bring about a small bump in
contributors. Personally, I haven't used C++ in awhile, and I've
grown rusty. At this point, D is probably the language I'm most
comfortable with, especially for hacking on something complex
like a compiler. I imagine there are at least a few people who
feel the same way and are waiting for DDMD before they take a
crack at contributing.
