H1 2015 Priorities and Bare-Metal Programming

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/1/15 8:41 PM, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 23:41:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> There's something we need to explain about the vision document itself.
>> Do I want to see more of Mike's awesome work in D going forward? Yes.
>> Do I want to see D on mobile? Of course. 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.
>
> Yes, this needs to be emphasized, as it isn't obvious that you limited
> it only to stuff that you and Walter can personally enable.  Perhaps you
> can expand the wiki page with a section for stuff that you two would
> like to see, but cannot personally enable.  Historically, the D
> community has been horrible at communicating goals like this, with all
> current efforts buried in miles of mailing list threads that few
> outsiders are ever going to wade through, if that.
>
> By putting these goals on the wiki, even if you can't personally enable
> them, someone might see a goal, decide they'd like to have that too, and
> start working on it, secure in the knowledge that it's wanted and is
> likely to be merged if certain quality standards are met.
>
> I suggest you add another clearly labeled section with such goals, what
> you "would like to see happen" but cannot "work on and make happen."
> The community might pick those up and run with them without you.

OK, did so. Thanks! -- Andrei