Opportunities for D

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d]

Am Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:27:26 -0700
schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>:

> On 7/10/2014 10:53 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> > Most of them never gathered any attention.
> 
> Sometimes, when the idea is right, you still need to get behind and
> push it. "Build it and they will come" is a stupid hollywood fantasy.
> 
> I've also written DIPs, which garnered zero comments. I implemented
> them, and the PR's sat there for some time, until I finally harangued
> some people via email to get them pulled.
> 
> I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that's just how it is. The DIPs
> were for things that looked obscure and were technically complex, a
> surefire recipe for a collective yawn even though I knew they were
> crucial (inferring uniqueness).
> 
> If you're looking for lots of comments, start a nice bikeshedding
> thread about whitespace conventions :-)
> 

But you've got some nice bonus:
If somebody doesn't like your pull request you can just merge it anyway.

But if you veto something the only one who can probably merge anyway is
Andrei.