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[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 02:59:38AM +0000, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

+1, the voice of reason.


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