Vision document for H1 2018

[Aravinda VK]

On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 16:15:22 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 14:37:28 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> And this clarifies the source of your confusion. The D 
>> programming language is an open source project, not a 
>> for-profit company. D is not the language you're looking for.
>
> There are 3 years since C# is also open source project. Last 
> week 72 pull requests form 24 contributors were merged on 
> ~master. And this is only for Roslyn (the C# compiler).
>
> The difference (at least for me) is that contributing to C# is 
> a no-brainer. Contributing to D needs an advanced degree in 
> computer science. Using the information on the D wiki didn't 
> helped me until now to successfully compile and test a fresh 
> copy of dmd or phobos.

I contributed to phobos for the first time for the release 
2.079.0. Experience was smooth and also I learnt many new things 
from the review comments. I was able to follow wiki page to 
compile phobos or compile one specific module. Please let us know 
the issue faced, so that wiki can be improved.