Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

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On 08/23/2018 05:17 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> And the nice thing about D being open source is that should the
> situation escalate to the point where the community simply cannot get
> along with W&A anymore, forking is always an option.

But forking only happens when the dissenters have enough motivation to 
do it. If they don't, they might just fade away one by one, looking for 
greener pastures elsewhere. That would probably be the worst outcome for 
D: the community shrinks until it's just Walter and Andrei wondering 
where everybody did go.

Now, I don't know if the amount of (quality) contributors is actually 
growing, shrinking, or stagnating. But I do know that I feel the pull 
(push?) away from D myself.

It feels like `@safe` and `shared` won't ever be solid. Auto-decoding 
won't go away. Unsound conversions (e.g., `char` -> `dchar`) won't go 
away. Regressions aren't being fixed (78 open). Wrong-code don't get 
fixed (170!). Etc., and so on. So why even bother?

Currently, I'm toying with ideas for a hobby language of my own. I know 
that it most likely won't go anywhere, but wasting time on that starts 
to feel more rewarding than wasting it on D.