Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 23:38:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/14/2016 6:26 AM, Chris wrote:
>> Now, now. Where's your sense of humor?
>
> The thing is, he's just here to troll us. His posts all follow 
> the same pattern of relentlessly finding nothing good 
> whatsoever in D, and we're all idiots.

Whoah, that's sensitive. Never called anyone an idiot, but D 
zealots seem to have a very low threshold for calling everyone 
else with a little bit of experience idiots if they see room for 
change in the language. The excesses of broken argumentation in 
this newsgroup is keeping change from coming to the language.

It is apparent by now that you and Andrei quite often produce 
smog screens to cover your trails of broken argument chains, 
which only serve to defend status quo and not really lead to the 
language to a competitive position. And no, you are not right 
just because you declare it, and no if you loose an argument it 
is not because someone changed the topic.

The sad part about D is that it could've become a major player, 
but is very unlikely to become one without outside help and less 
hostile attitude towards rather basic CS. But outside help is not 
really wanted. Because apparently D can become a major player by 
2020 without a cleanup according to you and Andrei.

It is highly unlikely for D to become a major player without 
language cleanup and opening more up to outside input.