On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 23:28:04 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 23:18:34 UTC, Ola Foaheim
Grøstad wrote:
D depends on two people
I disagree with this. Even if Walter Bright and Andrei
Alexandrescu both suddenly decided to go join the Amish
tomorrow, D would go on.
Just because D development is currently *controlled* by two
people doesn't mean that no one else is willing or able to
replace them, if the need/opportunity arose.
It is very difficult to predict what keeps online communities
together after a crisis, or if they disband gradually, but Rust
is just as vulnerable, if not more because of higher complexity.
Who knows if Mozilla suddenly have to downsize? Same with
Google's Dart. Or Nim.
It is much easier to predict longterm if you reach critical mass
like C++ and possibly Go.
