== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
> On 9/16/2011 2:47 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> > Essentially, I agree with his conclusion in the post. Tools and libraries
> > would
> > be my biggest concerns (in that order). The fact that D (usually) makes
> > things
> > easier for me barely registered when thinking about this.
> If you had $100,000,000 none of these are an issue, as you can easily afford
> to
> hire top developers to address any and all of them.
> There's a reason why huge companies like Microsoft, Google, Intel and Apple
> bring compiler dev in house. It's because they are so heavily reliant on
> compiler technology, they cannot afford not to.
This is exactly what I was thinking, and it's even more true now that D has two
fully open-source compilers. GDC is almost usable on x86 already. ("Almost"
here
means there's one showstopper bug that keeps me from using it for real work.)
I'm
sure you could hire a dev or two to get it working well on ARM and/or PowerPC.
Think of all the money you'd save by not having to hire a bunch of extra people
to
write and maintain mountains of boilerplate.
If I were in charge of a company, the major place where I wouldn't use D would
be
in small but mission-critical projects. If it's a big project, I could hire
someone to improve D tool support and probably make up the difference with
enhanced productivity. If it's not that mission-critical then I don't need to
be
that risk-averse.
