On 19/03/2018 4:43 PM, Norm wrote:
On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 03:14:51 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
Did they at any point tell us that it was a blocker for your company
who was trialing D?
Because I do not remember once in that time period of any one saying
this.
Walter has gone out of his way in the past to help companies, even
flying to them on his own dime.
If you want to be treated special, we need to have a reason for you to
be treated special, otherwise you're just like everybody else
complaining without giving back.
We don't want to be treated special. We don't want to give back. This is
the *entire* point.
D claims to be "Industry Proven and Ready" but we have to submit PRs or
get special treatment from Walter to use it effectively? Sorry, but this
is why many feel that D is still just a hobby project.
We are an organisation trying to get work done. D was a potential
replacement of our existing C++/Python tool chain. Unfortunately it
*requires* us to give back, which as I stated is not our business. Our
business is the development of medical devices and supporting
application software, not compiler or language development.
You just said the magic word, medical.
D was never an appropriate fit here.
dmd's backend has been for thirty years (or so) been up to recently
licensed so that you may not use it for this purpose. Nothing has
changed here.