On 10/18/2010 04:59 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Java was big long before it was open-sourced, and C# is big in spite of the fact that its main compiler isn't open source and the one that is (Mono) is so far behind the main one that many people totally discount it.
Java and C# were pushed by big companies. Pretty much any other popular language these days is open source.
I really don't understand the complaints about the lack of an open source compiler for D, but then again, I've always been pro-open source and anti-free software (I think that the FSF is nuts, personally), so that may be why.
I really don't understand why you say you don't understand. You list the reasons why open source is good. Not everybody has the luxury of plopping down a $1000 for a compiler. People don't want vendor lock-in. Open source is a popular movement, and you say you're pro-open source, and you don't understand why D gets knocked for not being so?
