stable != abandoned [was: My Kingdom For ...]

[Christopher Wright]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Christopher Wright, el 21 de febrero a las 22:33 me escribiste:
>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>> I think D1.0 is good enough and deserves a little love to finally polish
>>> all the rough corners and make it move forward in small and backward
>>> compatible steps to be a nice, maintained and usable language.
>> The frontend is open source; care to volunteer?
> 
> Yes, but the only problem here is not the source code. If I decide to
> change the frontend to admit, for example, !in, but Walter don't want to
> include it on DMD (which will mean that GDC probably will not follow),
> nothing will change. Other posibility will be to fork the language
> specification, but I don't know if that's even possible because of the
> licensing issues. Or one could just implemente that stuff in GDC
> documenting just the extra features.

It comes down to a popularity contest, and DMD is way ahead.

But let's say the fork just started as a testbed for bug fixes and the 
like. That'd probably garner more attention than one going for new 
features. And maybe porting some minor changes in D2 to D1.