Isn't it time

Simen kjaeraas simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 09:01:22 PST 2010


On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:52:20 +0100, Steve Teale  
<steve.teale at britseyeview.com> wrote:

> That this newsgroup was renamed digitalmars.d2. Probably > 80% of the  
> discussion here is on topics relating to the evolution of the language.  
> Don't get me wrong, as soon as D2 is stable, I'll be the first to switch.
>
> But where does the current discussion leave those of us who want to use  
> D  and talk about the usage of what is the current mainstream core of  
> the language - 1.055 - if I understand the situation correctly? That  
> should be digitalmars.D.
>
> If there was discussion about how good it was that the various flavors  
> of the language were getting in sync, and on idiom, and on cool D  
> programming techniques, and on explanation, I'm sure the newsgroup would  
> pull more people in.
>
> As it is, the uncommitted with some interest in D visit occasionally,  
> and leave with the same old, same old feeling.
>
> Let's try to turn D into a really active living language, not some vague  
> future possibility. Perception is everything!

IMHO:

digitalmars.D --> digitalmars.D.dev
digitalmars.D.learn --> digitalmars.D.users

D is not big enough to fork the groups in D1 and D2 IMO, but currently
there is considerable overlap between digitalmars.D and digitalmars.D.learn
in what they cover.

-- 
Simen



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