Vision document for H1 2018

[Mike Parker]

On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:

>
> According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents 
> don't care about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority list?

1. The vision document was started before the survey and the 
survey isn't closed, so the survey results don't factor into it 
yet.

2. The survey results will serve as a set of guidelines for 
future directions, not as a set of absolute directives. It wasn't 
a controlled survey and it doesn't reflect the entire D community.

3. Work on BetterC was started a long time ago and isn't going to 
be abandoned over night.

If something shows up as high priority in the survey, then it 
makes sense to evaluate its impact and see how we can devote more 
resources to it going forward. If something shows up as low 
priority, then we have to take a number of factors into account, 
(e.g. Is it being worked on already? Are there commercial 
interests who *do* consider it a priority? Etc.).

In other words, when setting goals post-survey, the results will 
factor into the decisions, but they won't necessarily be the 
deciding factor. The survey is a means of getting community input 
in one place, as opposed to scattered across the forums and 
reddit comments.