Walter and Andrei and community relationship management

[qznc via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 at 07:51:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 19:18:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:24:01AM -0700, Walter Bright via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On 4/11/2017 2:18 AM, qznc wrote:
>>> > It usually comes down to charismatic and visionary leaders. 
>>> > Walter and Andrei are good with that, otherwise D would 
>>> > have faltered long ago.
>>> 
>>> For a socially inept nerd such as myself, with all the 
>>> charisma of a lamppost, I think D has done very well.
>>
>> You underestimate yourself. While you're no charismatic hero 
>> by any stretch of imagination, you do carry quite some weight 
>> in what you say simply by your history of achievements, as 
>> well as your technical expertise and wealth of experience in 
>> computer-related issues. It's no surprise that in this crowd 
>> full of like-minded nerds who respect technical expertise, 
>> you're doing none too badly.  It might be a completely 
>> different story if you were in a more "typical" social 
>> setting, though. :-P
>
> I was going to say something similar.  I have seen responses in 
> reddit/HN threads where devs were in awe that Walter Bright 
> responded to them.  In the tech community, which has 
> _completely_ different ideas of what constitutes charisma and 
> vision, Walter and Andrei, with his distinguished history and 
> very entertaining talks, are pretty much the definition.  That 
> is not the issue, D has those in spades.

+1

I'm not sure if Walter can claim to have written a complete C++ 
compiler all by himself. Even if not, he is probably the one 
person on this planet, who is closest.

Walter is also pretty good with nerd-sniping [0]. ;)

[0] Example: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/mg13tc$2ptk$1@digitalmars.com