Opportunities for D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/12/14, 1:27 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Indeed that's how it is. It's also a quality issue - we can reasonably 
assume that a perfect slam-dunk DIP would be easily recognized; many of 
the current DIPs (including mine) need work and dedication, which is 
more difficult to find.

Andrei