D : Not for me anymore

[Georg Wrede]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Walter-Bottleneck, and although I admire his vigorous and persistent 
> work, I think eventually we will have to open up the D development 
> process more. 

I'm afraid I agree. (Disclaimer: my agreement on this is not to be 
construed as a statement of Walter not being an inhuman coder!)

> Most successful other languages and projects have teams of 
> developers working on them (either corporate funded, or open-source 
> communities), and as D matures I think we too will have to bring more 
> manpower into the core tools to become competitive. The idea of a 
> one-man army is inspirational, but I don't think it's very realistic.

The way I see it, we do have enough capable coders. Problem is, we 
really have not one single example on record of getting the focus and 
coherence right. In other words, with this crowd, we _should_ have been 
able to resolve the GUI issue already, and the standard library should 
also have been written and finished ages ago.

I'm not talking more work per programmer, I'm just stating that we're 
doing duplicate work, useless work, irrelevant work, and in general ill 
planned work -- seen from the point of view of the end-result, that is.

But don't blame it on us programmers alone. Or Walter. What we really 
need at this point is Leaders. Guys who don't even have to be code 
writers themselves, just guys who can pull together a team and keep the 
aim crystal clear.