Vision document for H1 2018

psychoticRabbit meagain at meagain.com
Sun Mar 11 01:21:27 UTC 2018


On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:06:08 UTC, R wrote:
>
> Point to the wall on the left side. That is what your talking 
> to. D its focus on C++ as a bad plan has been made pushed by 
> many people ( lots who left ). Its like asking Go for Generics.
>
> And its very nice to see the "71% in the poll do not want 
> BetterC", well, screw them comment. So what is the point again 
> by asking people opinions? And sure, BetterC can be reused to 
> improve the D core but that is not what people want NOW. And 
> yet, its a priority when 71% say its not!
>
> D simply is not equipped for dealing with people who come from 
> languages like C#, Ruby, PHP, Python, ... because too many 
> people here are C++ old timers ( yes, there are exceptions ) 
> and they only think in that direction.
> There is a lesson the be learned in this somewhere...
> ....

Again, D is not run by some corporation.

Nor is it a democracy - where majority rule. (read this sentence 
over and over till you get it)

It's a language that develops because people are sufficiently 
motivated to put in the time to develop what interests them.

Have your say and leave it at that. Stop attacking the work 
others are doing.

And stop your discriminatory use of the phrase 'old timers'.



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