On 29/12/2016 2:08 AM, Satoshi wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 12:43:03 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 08:35:52 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
I'm working on a commercial IDE and GUI framework for a year and half
and I'm not able to release any version due to this bug[1].
...
Please, stop adding new features to D and start fixing existing ones.
- Satoshi
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[1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16590
You've got things reversed. The point of a company like Google or Sun
backing a language is that things get done, like this bug fix, so that
the language can be used for whatever that company needs it to do.
You claim you want to make money off the language, yet you are
demanding that volunteers immediately fix a bug that is holding you
back. That's an odd business model. You have three options: pay to fix
it yourself, use a different language that allows you to benefit from
work paid for by more profitable companies like Google, or wait for
volunteers to do it on their schedule.
This is not unique to D. I'm reminded of Visual Studio not supporting
C99 or Firefox not supporting certain HTML 5 features.
I know that :/ I'm just responding to people who wants shift D to
commercial companies but are doing different steps than they should do.
Yes, it's true that I want to make money off the language so I should
paid for that fix but in other way you want to promote D to others and
this is the thing what's holding me back to do the same. And the bug
will be fixed anyway, so.
If you don't hear about any fixes coming from a core dev in the next day
or so, contact Walter directly.
