Funding for code-d/serve-d

[Mike Parker]

This morning at the Hackathon I announced that the D Foundation 
is raising money for code-d/serve-d, the plugin for Visual Studio 
Code and its companion Microsoft Language Server Protocol 
implementation for D.

We've set up a goal of $3000 at our Open Collective page:

https://opencollective.com/dlang#

At the top of the page, you'll see our current balance, the 
projected balance at the end of the year based on the current 
level of monthly donations, and the goal of $3000 on the far 
right.

We're sitting at just over $1100 as I write this, which means 
we're almost halfway there already. We encourage those of you who 
use Webfreak's VS Code plugin to contribute whatever you can in 
order to fund its development, especially if you want to see it 
improve.

An important point is that development on serve-d can ultimately 
benefit not just code-d, but other IDE and editor plugins where 
it may be used.

If we reach $2700 within 30 days, the D Foundation will throw in 
the remaining $300 and we'll let Webfreak get to work.

If this proves successful, we hope to use future goals to fund 
development across the D ecosystem. Some of our targets will be 
driven by the results of the recent State of D Survey and others 
will be driven by other concerns. If you are interested in 
helping to move the state of D development forward, please 
consider contributing!