Personal thoughts about D2 release, D, the Universe and everything

[hasenj]

Walter Bright wrote:
> I suggest that you focus in on one problem area that particularly 
> interests you, and help out! For example, pick something with 
> installation issues, and figure out how to resolve them.

Walter, I said this on the reddit thread the other day; don't know if 
you got it.

You can't treat your role in D as just "the dude who writes the compiler".

I don't want to repeat myself, see here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9zqj0/the_state_of_d_programming_is_this_situation/c0f80gq?context=4

Yes, D must rely on the community to succeed, but here's the thing:

Let's suppose that I'm a volunteer, I want to work on, say, an IDE.

BUT ..

When I see that Walter is moving his attention to D(X+1) and forgetting 
about D(X), I feel like, if the guy behind the language doesn't care, 
why should *I* care?

Look at dsource, why is everything there almost dead?

You're treating D like an experiment: Let's try out these really cool 
new ideas, and who cares if the language doesn't get adopted?