H1 2015 Priorities and Bare-Metal Programming

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 23:41:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> Yah, I must chime in here. I'm a bit surprised by Mike's 
> conclusion that he's been rejected.

Forgive me if that's the conclusion I conveyed.  I said my ideas 
were unpopular, and if one follows the links to the threads I 
posted, you'll see that indeed they are.  They were indeed 
criticized, but it is the lack of interest that is most 
discouraging.  I don't necessarily feel rejected.  Rather, I see 
that D is heavily biased towards a few specific domains, and I 
think D has more potential than that.  So, I suggest the stewards 
of the language guard against any trend to make the language too 
domain- or platform-specific.

I also said at the start of this thread that I'm ok with 
abandoning my ideas, as long as the core team expresses interest 
and a way forward that I can get on board with.

> I assume Mike is Michael V. Franklin who gave the talk at 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5m0m_ZG9e8.

Actually, I was so excited about D, I changed my name to Michael 
D. Franklin:  https://archive.org/details/dconf2014-day02-talk07

> There's a lot of stuff that Walter and I would like to see 
> happen that's not in the document. The document itself includes 
> things that he and I actually believe we can work on and make 
> happen. (In the case of vibe.d, we made sure we asked Sönke.) 
> It doesn't include awesome things that others can do without 
> our help - and it shouldn't.
>
> The vision document also doesn't include things we believe are 
> implied. For example "D should remain an efficient, 
> systems-level language." To the extent D prevents systems-level 
> work from getting done, we should fix it to allow that to 
> happen. Again, I'm glad folks like Walter and Iain have an eye 
> on that.

This is exactly the information I hoped to elicit in this thread. 
  If there is interest in hardware programming, let's discuss a 
way forward.  If the core team already has its hands full, that's 
fine too.  Perhaps, it's best for me to reallocate myself 
elsewhere and revisit D at a later time.  But I don't want to 
remain on the fence.

Mike