dlang website design

[Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 11:10:42 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:13:13 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> Anyone can start a group to work on something. If you want to 
>> put together a group to improve the IDE situation, come up 
>> with a plan (we need x, y, and z and here's how we'll do it), 
>> make an announcement on the forum, and run with it. No need to 
>> ask for permission, because there's nobody to ask for 
>> permission.
>
> I think you hit the nail on that head with that one. There is 
> nobody to ask permission but the other side of the shoe is 
> also, there is nobody to push for it.
>
> We can talk about it for ages but very few people have the time 
> to pick up projects beyond our own. It helps when you are 
> writing a project and you need a feature/library that D does 
> not have. And in the end you public that feature/library. And 
> the feature/library get maintained as long as that project is 
> relevant to your needs.
>
> This is something that is noticeable in D especially, a lot of 
> projects are a result from people needing something, they write 
> it. But the moment they do not need it anymore? There is in a 
> lot of cases nobody to take over the project for various 
> reasons.
>
> D feels at times too much incomplete. And the above mentioned 
> point is one of them.
>
> There is no real leadership to push for features. It seems to 
> me, that Walter and Andrei live in there happy little world, 
> writing new features into D that they want / find interesting. 
> Nothing wrong with that. But they are somewhat the official 
> leaders of D...
>
> Maybe its better if D gets a community leader / director / 
> communication expert or whatever the titles, who's job is not 
> pure development ( some knowledge is always a plus ) but to 
> focus the resources ( by acquiring talent, money, publicity, 
> ... ) in actually enhancing D its eco system.
>
> All the talk before technically comes down to this. Its not 
> about simply electing yourself to write a library/feature that 
> D is missing and that is. That does not work because it 
> temporary solves one issue but not the global. Anyway, off 
> lunch, back to the salt mines.

+1