Is D really community driven?

[BCS]

Reply to Downs,

> The D homepage makes the claim that D "[...] is not governed by a
> corporate agenda or any overarching theory of programming. The 
> needs and contributions of the D programming community form
> the direction it goes." Recent discussions on the newsgroup 
> regarding assert with Object references that might be null (no,
> segfault is _not_ a valid form of error checking ^^), CbD parameters
> or the older question of "!in" come to mind as cases where the D 
> community, as represented by this forum, pretty much voted as a
> majority to introduce a certain behavior and Walter decided
> differently, out of reasons that many posters would, and did, disagree 
> with. So, the question is: is D really ultimately community driven? I have
> no real problem with it being a singular effort by Walter, but then he
> shouldn't claim that "the needs and contributions of the D
> programming community" et cetera. Unless he's saying he knows the
> needs of the community better than the community itself :)
> --downs

Water drives, we all say where we want to go, but Walter still pick how we 
get there.