Vision document for H1 2018

[Dylan Graham]

On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:50:22 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:36:51 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
>
>>
>> The D Language Foundation, being the leading body of D, should 
>> hold some responsibility to the interests of the majority.
>
> Please read my post from earlier:
>
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/chsqspkoxbcdqjcqbfjc@forum.dlang.org
>
> The survey *will* have an influence on what gets priority in 
> the future, but it certainly can't be seen as representing the 
> majority of D programming interests.
>

Good. That's definitely for the better.

>>
>> It is not a dictatorship (read this sentence over and over 
>> till you get it).
>
> No one is forcing you to use BetterC and its existence doesn't 
> change anything about how you can use the language. Obviously, 
> there are a number of areas that need work. The survey can help 
> decide which of those to put resources into first, but it 
> doesn't mean that other things deemed important have to be 
> dropped.

That sentence was to counter psychoticRabbit. I didn't mean it 
literally. If you've read my earlier posts, it's not BetterC I 
have an issue with, it's the allocation of time.

As you said, hopefully the survey will help clear up these issues 
with D.