On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 09:36:20 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 00:58:41 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-makes-visual-studio-free-for-small-teams/
This is good news for D! It lowers the bar for writing 64 bit
D code on Windows, and it also enables us to abandon support
for versions of VS prior to 2013.
Actually I think it makes the life harder to earn Windows
developers hearts for D, specially with .NET Native around the
corner (it will come in Windows 10).
Free Visual Studio + C#/F# + SIMD + .NET Native is a very
enticing proposal.
I would have a very hard time to convince any of our customers
to use D instead.
--
Paulo
Exactly my thoughts... also syntax sugar, compiled language was
such a big argument to people use D instead of. But C# as an open
source language (so the guys from UNIXes around can move to it)
and native language, the C++ guys are going to move from C++ to
C# not D. I don't know, but I'm not sure if this open source is
good for D community.
And yeah I know there's Mono and it's open source from day 1. But
it's the MS implementation.
