On the origins of github.com/D-Programming-Language

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 21:59:31 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 21:55:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/14/2016 12:40 PM, Seb wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Wouldn't it be easier to have d-lang redirect to 
>> d-programming-language?
>
> Github doesn't support that directly - only for renames, 
> besides the point is that new urls become a lot shorter and 
> similar to dlang.org like github.com/dlang/dmd. Short names are 
> trendy and young people like me love such names :)
> Btw we now have "dlang" reserved.

Theoretically... if we move to dlang and back... but, that's all 
the disadvantages with neither the advantages. Unless GitHub 
support gets involved, but they've probably been bothered enough 
by us already.