On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 18:02:21 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 16:32:15 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 16:15:37 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 14:26:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 13:48:42 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 09:36:43 UTC, Chris wrote:
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Who's going to pay for the factory?
-Alex
That's for the D Foundation to figure out. There's a reason
we have a D Foundation now, isn't there?
The annual monthly budget is around 4K$.
https://opencollective.com/dlang#
-Alex
"annual monthly?" Look again:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1#H2_2017_Review
I merely using the value that the open collective site have
give me. Regardless $1605 far from enough money to hire full
time workers, as chris has suggested.
-Alex
Then the D Foundation should work on it. Get companies on board
etc. All I hear is "we don't have enough money, we depend on the
good will of our community members..." Then leave it. There's no
way D can compete with languages that are backed by companies and
that have additional benefits like targeting Android, iOS and the
Web, e.g. Kotlin. What does D have to offer? Sure, nice features,
but what's the point if you cannot use the language anywhere you
like and have broken basics like autodecode? Also, some of the
nice features (the more useful ones) are adopted by other
languages as time goes by. So there will remain no compelling
reason to choose D over other languages - if it goes on like this.
