What don't you switch to GitHub issues

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:57:08AM +0000, Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 1 January 2018 at 18:32:37 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
[...]
> > I am just going to share my thoughts a little. Github, in my
> > opinion, is hype and even though I depend on it today, I am trying
> > to decrease that dependency. We should build a world that is not
> > dependent on single companies. I am not downplaying what github has
> > done for us (I am one of the early users) - but they have just
> > become a little too important for free software to be comfortable.
> > The github issue tracker is wanting anyway.
> > 
> > D is a great language. I just spent 6 months in C++ and the last
> > month worked on a D multi-threaded project again. I'll blog about
> > this soon, but the short of it is that I am very grateful to Walter,
> > Andrei, Kai, Ian, Johan and others for creating a language that fits
> > our needs so well! D software is doing critical work around the
> > world every second. D is probably not a language for the hype
> > community - let them have Go and Rust. I honestly don't care. And D
> > should not care. Great programmers gyrate to powerful languages and
> > toolboxes. I love I can read the source code of Phobos and
> > understand it. I love I get low level access to stack variables. I
> > love I can manipulate the heap in any way I want. I love we can
> > target GPU and KNL. I love we have Maybe even though it is called
> > Nullable...
> > 
> > A great programmer can handle D fine. As it is. Let's not try to be
> > the next hype. Let's keep writing great software.
> > 
> +10000

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