Can we all please stop overreacting?

[Gurney Halleck]

== Quote from Sean Kelly (sean at invisibleduck.org)'s article
> Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> > Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > > "another lurker" <lurker at lurk.urk> wrote in message >
> > > news:hrfcfi$1eaq$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > >> == Quote from Don (nospam at nospam.com)'s article
> > >>> FeepingCreature wrote:
> > >>>   The quality-of-code metric seems to be universally acknowledged
> > > > > -
> > >>> after all, druntime itself is a fork of tango core.
> > >>> "We think you suck, so we'll base our new standard library on your
> > > > > work. >>> "
> > >>> You seem to be unaware of the history, and this may be leading you
> > > > > to
> > >>> misunderstand the situation.
> > >>> Sean Kelly wrote Ares as a replacement for Phobos. Tango began as
> > > > > a
> > >>> merger of Ares with Mango. "Tango core" is Ares. Druntime is also
> > > > > Ares.
> > >>> The primary author has never changed, and it's an unbroken
> > > > > continuation
> > >>> of development on a single code base. Ditto with tango.math,
> > > > > (which was
> > >>> written by me, originally in a project called 'mathextra').
> > >> Thank you Sean Kelly, Don and Steve Schveiguy for leaving Tango and
> > > > coming >> to
> > >> Phobos. It means very much for everybody.
> > > > Don just said in the message you're replying to that they didn't
> > > > leave > Tango.
> > My most recent svn commit to Tango was only a month ago, so I still
> > have a toe in both camps. But actually I've spent almost all of my
> > time working on the compiler.
> > I have not yet decided on how I will respond to this situation.
> I don't know whether it's relevant, but I haven't even looked at Tango
> code (other than my own modules) since Druntime was created.  Regardless
> of any personal reasons, I simply don't have the time to support more
> than one project.
> Regrding this latest bit of drama, I have to say that I'm coming to
> regret my decision to help start Tango.  It was a great opportunity to
> do some work that interested me, but the cost to the community has been
> too high.  I sincerely hope that people get over whatever issues they
> have and simply focus on making D a better language.

I appreciate your decision to leave that wasp nest and join Phobos.

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Gurney Halleck