New forum section under ecosystem?

JN 666total at wp.pl
Thu Feb 22 12:11:18 UTC 2018


I was wondering,

perhaps this forum could use additional section under Ecosystem, 
something like "Projects"? Look at old dsource projects section: 
http://dsource.org/projects/ and the forums 
http://dsource.org/forums/ . All of that is dead now, as is 
dsource, but it looks so exciting. So many projects! Game 
engines, scripting languages based on D, web libraries!

Right now, there is no place to share projects being work in 
progress. Even if they never go anywhere, it could generate some 
nice activity. General is more for language related issues. 
Announce works pretty much only for finished projects. Anything 
under ecosystem doesn't work because it's for specific types of 
projects - compilers, IDEs and GUIs.

Look at dub repository, sort by date added. There are many 
projects being worked on in the D community, but they don't have 
any visibility while they are in progress. Most of them are 
hidden somewhere on github, maybe in some Reddit comment.

I hate to use the R-word, but Rust is one of those languages that 
has a lot of visibility and activity based around amateur fun 
projects. Many never get finished, but people work on stuff - 
console emulators, for fun operating systems. People do the same 
for D, but you never even learn about them, because they don't 
have a place to share their work.


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