DlangUI and CL Tools

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 11:46:12 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

> But who are those "we" you refer to? :) Or, to rephrase, do you 
> really envision a volunteer abandoning any project/task he has 
> current personal interest in to work on some third-party 
> project (he doesn't need) because of its strategical value? 
> Call be grumpy and skeptical but open-source pretty much never 
> works like that. Specifically calls for arms like yours have 
> been done many times before and always with exactly 0 effective 
> outcome.
>
> I am not saying that you shouldn't call for arms, just don't be 
> surprised/offended if nothing happens as a result :)

Yes, yes. We all know that. We've been here long enough. I'm 
being neither idealistic nor naive. But still, D has improved 
drastically over just 3 r 4 years. So there is definitely a "we" 
out there somewhere. And there might be people out there who 
think that they would like to contribute to D but not necessarily 
to Phobos. It could be anything, from artwork (icons) for DlangUI 
to testing, creating themes, writing plugins. If people have the 
feeling there's a future for the project, they will contribute. 
It's not a call to arms. It's more like saying "Look, here's 
something that is good. And you can improve it." I just think the 
time has come to go beyond the language and add some bells and 
whistles. With DConf coming up, maybe it's worth talking about 
things like that too.