On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 13:54:40 UTC, Chris wrote:
full-fledged IDE, there would be other concerns (or excuses). D scares people away. It's too raw, too bare bones, everything is still moving like hot lava, and maybe people are intimidated by
Yes, stability is important for commercial development. I notice some people say that you can just lock yourself to a particular compiler, but this does not work. Not even for C++. Yesterday I had to upgrade to a more recent version of clang just to get a library to work, which used some C++14 features.
Yet, it would be a tragedy for D to freeze on backwards compatibility like C++ has done. Rust and D has the advantage that they can move forward faster than C++. Having lots of commerical development in D right now would just be a drag, IMO.
Though, I think a lighter version of D geared towards embedded and asm.js could be a good commercial option (no gc in release, no exceptions, no classes, no growable slices etc). Basically enter a market where there is less competition (just C and perhaps Rust).
