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[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 00:46:00 UTC, rsw0x wrote:

> Yes, how dare people see D marketed as a non-alpha language 
> then realize the language is actually still in an alpha-state.

It's not in an alpha state. It's a grassroots language. There's 
no other way to describe it. Being community driven, it moves in 
the direction and at the pace that the community drives it. 
There's no large team, no governing body, no committee to drive 
development. Everyone using it needs to accept that any 
particular personal peeve they have with the language are only 
going to get changed in one of two ways: there's enough momentum 
behind it to cause it to percolate up to the top of the priority 
list for the core developers, or if you do it yourself. That's 
what it boils down to.

It's unreasonable to lambast the core developers as wanting to do 
nothing to improve the language. There are only so many hours in 
the day. Walter and Andrei care very much about this language. So 
do many others who are working to make it better, focusing on the 
areas that fit within their needs and their abilities. That's why 
it has come along as far as it has.

Debate about which issues should take priority are certainly 
needed, but these threads that degenerate into bashing the core 
developers, or calling D a "toy" language, serve no purpose other 
than to waste bandwidth and make it difficult to discuss what 
really matters.