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[Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 15:09:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 14:39:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> On 23/10/15 3:13 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> And yet projects like dlangui keep on dying.
>> Obviously something is not right with how they are.
>
> Projects typically die because they don't have enough people 
> involved (frequently only one) and those who are involved no 
> longer have the time and/or interest.
>
> Maybe the color stuff belongs in Phobos. Maybe not. But IMHO, 
> concerns about 3rd party projects dying off is _not_ a good 
> reason to put something in the standard library. I don't think 
> that we want large amounts of code being thrown into Phobos on 
> the theory that the Phobos devs will maintain it and whoever 
> wrote it can stop caring.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I'd say that projects die becaus they don't have users/traction. 
This is very discouraging to the author as he looses faith that 
the project makes sense in the first place