On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 at 08:40:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/16/2017 2:09 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> I would be a lot more worried if something happened to me, if I were you.
>
> You're right, you're a heluva amazing one man show with gdc.

Deserves a patreon. I'd contribute.

Matheus.

On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 01:17:36 UTC, Mattcoder wrote:
>
> Deserves a patreon. I'd contribute.
>
> Matheus.

The nice thing about donating to the D Foundation is that my company can match my donations (200%, cha-ching!). They wouldn't do it for a random patreon.

Thank you all for those answers.

For me, open source is not a sufficient reason. Look at any random open source github project that has 1 contributor, 10 commits, and dead since 3 years. (like mine)

Look at this crapy PHP thing. It as 22 years old, and not ready to be dead yet.
Look at that brillant D language. It as 15 years old, but almost unknown and unused.
Look at that Go language that deem whitespace-only line is an error. It as 7 years old, and everybody in the office ask me to code with it.

That remind me Tokyo Tyrant and Kyoto Tycoon, excellent key-value database that I used in the past. Completly forgotten.
That remind me Rebol. This language just blow-up my mind every times I return to it. RIP.

> Joakim wrote:
> You have to be prepared to maintain ancient toolchains yourself

Joakim: Your are right about the toolchain. I'm always using DMD, but I probably should concider start working with GCD and LCD, too.

> Iain Buclaw wrote:
> I would be a lot more worried if something happened to me, if I were you.

> Ruppe wrote:
> But Iain's knowledge and connections with gdc is stuff I have no clue about.

Iain, Adam: Can I concider working with GCD, knowing that only 1 guy knows everything about the project?

> Rion wrote:
> Apple without Jobs is still Apple

Rion: Apple is not a good example to compare with. They make money, not coding during jogs for the pleasure, or for yearly conference for 3k viewers.

> codephantom wrote:
> It's all fairly new... be patient and give it time to grow.

codephantom: If every other people wait for D language to grow before using it, it will never grow.

For me, the whole univers of D is talking, working and coding arround the language itself. D needs high level realisations, releases and success. They are so few.

What can make D successful enough to stay alive like C and cross the ages?
I would pay my company to let work with D. (...no, but you get the idea)

I'm soo frustated.
Have a nice day anyway. :)

(sorry for my bad english)

On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 09:54:41 UTC, moechofe wrote:
> Iain, Adam: Can I concider working with GCD, knowing that only 1 guy knows everything about the project?

There are two people behind GDC, don't forget about Johannes Pfau. And don't forget that they are responsible only for the glue code between D and GCC. D frontend is developed by a core D team and the GCC backend has a large amount of contributors and maintainers.