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

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hasenj дµ½:

> 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?
> 
	
I think you said is very reasonable