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

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 14 15:07:18 PDT 2016


On 4/14/2016 2:59 PM, 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 :)

I don't get it. If D-Programming-Language can redirect to dlang, then the 
reverse should be easy (and nothing else will have to change).


> Btw we now have "dlang" reserved.

Nice work getting that! I prefer dlang to d-lang.


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