Re: D's open source approach

2017-10-14 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 11:32:55 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 07:54:19 UTC, Joakim wrote: By the reasoning in the essay, I don't expect this to be solved for free: the solution is for the devs behind the IDEs, Visual Studio, DlangIDE, etc., to charge money for a

Re: D's open source approach

2017-10-12 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 07:54:19 UTC, Joakim wrote: By the reasoning in the essay, I don't expect this to be solved for free: the solution is for the devs behind the IDEs, Visual Studio, DlangIDE, etc., to charge money for a streamlined process. Why hasn't this happened yet? There a

D's open source approach

2017-10-12 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
I just stumbled across an 18-year old essay, by an economist and one-time tech entrepreneur written during the dot.com boom, about open source and its properties, and this paragraph particularly reminded me of D, especially the bit about the mailing list which we're anachronistically still usin