On the future of DIP1000

[Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:34:04 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:19:40 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 05:57:25 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> We've never mocked Rust's safety features, although I have 
>>> posted that they are too complex for D and desire a simpler 
>>> system.
>>>
>>
>> "A disharmonic personality. Reading any amount of Rust code 
>> evokes the joke 'friends don't let friends skip leg day' and 
>> the comic imagery 
>> (https://www.google.com/search?q=friends+don%27t+let+friends+skip+leg+day&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCM_ViveKhMkCFUfZPgodVsgLsA&biw=1582&bih=1352) of men with hulky torsos resting on skinny legs".  --Andrei
>>
>> If that's not mockery, then how would you describe it?
>
> On my phone so can only speak from memory, but if it serves 
> then he went on to equally criticise D for its warts and 
> blemishes. It would be cherry-picking to ignore context and 
> just say that he threw mockery at rust.

Riiiiiiiiiiight!

Nothing has been taken out of context, so don't get it twisted.  
In his post Andrei did cover the disadvantages of D, but his tone 
was very different when talking about Rust and Go.  And yes, he 
was mocking Rust and even teasing Go for that matter.

Andrei's Quora post was mostly a PR stunt:  when your competition 
has a larger number of subscribers/users, you attack it in order 
to steal the spotlight.  I haven't seen this kind of behavior 
from Rust or Go creators towards D.