http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652176

standard article. Interesting thought at the end.

kenny wrote:
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652176
> 
> standard article. Interesting thought at the end.

Re: the thought at the end.  What was the business model behind Python or Ruby?

	-- Daniel

lol, I dunno. I don't think there is one. Perhaps he was referring to the idea that google uses python extensively and ruby has rails.

Those aren't business models though. IMO D will start to gain publicity soon as soon as mainstream apps and companies start to use D for development.

I'm sure I'm not the only person pushing my company's development to switch to D. As more companies adopt D as a development platform, it will become "normal" to use D. In the future I will also open source our software. Again, I'm sure that others will do this too. These sorts of steps are huge for the "success" of D as a language.

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One of mozilla's major successes is it's collaboration with google. Because of the sponsorship, mozilla now has enough resources to fund all kinds of development. Because D is not an application that will be difficult -- but if D can be used as an integral component to a revenue generating application, I think D will have a "business model" -- in the author's method of thinking.

Just thinking off of the top of my head, perhaps, if there was someone willing to maintain a patch to DMD that compiles the files into memory (writable,executable PE section), then DMD could be used by games for AI and general scripting. (compiled in real time) That'd be super cool -- like lua but better. If someone made that proposal to a game company, things could start generating revenue that way, or at least a larger exposure because of modders. I dunno.

Surely there has to be more ideas. I'll have to keep thinking.



Daniel Keep wrote:
> kenny wrote:
>> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652176
>>
>> standard article. Interesting thought at the end.
> 
> Re: the thought at the end.  What was the business model behind Python or Ruby?
> Perhaps
>     -- Daniel

kenny wrote:
> lol, I dunno. I don't think there is one. Perhaps he was referring to the idea that google uses python extensively and ruby has rails.
> 
> Those aren't business models though. IMO D will start to gain publicity soon as soon as mainstream apps and companies start to use D for development.
> 
> I'm sure I'm not the only person pushing my company's development to switch to D. As more companies adopt D as a development platform, it will become "normal" to use D. In the future I will also open source our software. Again, I'm sure that others will do this too. These sorts of steps are huge for the "success" of D as a language.
> 
> ---------------
> 
> One of mozilla's major successes is it's collaboration with google. Because of the sponsorship, mozilla now has enough resources to fund all kinds of development. Because D is not an application that will be difficult -- but if D can be used as an integral component to a revenue generating application, I think D will have a "business model" -- in the author's method of thinking.
> 
> Just thinking off of the top of my head, perhaps, if there was someone willing to maintain a patch to DMD that compiles the files into memory (writable,executable PE section), then DMD could be used by games for AI and general scripting. (compiled in real time) That'd be super cool -- like lua but better. If someone made that proposal to a game company, things could start generating revenue that way, or at least a larger exposure because of modders. I dunno.
> 
> Surely there has to be more ideas. I'll have to keep thinking.
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> kenny wrote:
>>> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652176
>>>
>>> standard article. Interesting thought at the end.
>>
>> Re: the thought at the end.  What was the business model behind Python or Ruby?
>> Perhaps
>>     -- Daniel

Now *there's* a codebase that could use a rewrite in D. (Mozilla)