Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Tourist]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 14:41:50 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 10:25:03 UTC, Guillaume Lathoud 
> wrote:
>> Maybe there is a psychological explanation for the debate here 
>> - please bear with me - just speculating:
>
> It's a lot less complicated than it sounds.
>
> Some average joes (you know who they are) with zero skin in the 
> game are given the chance to talk to incredible programmers and 
> have them answer in a sort of ego-tripping trance.
>
> But the only way to have them answer is to troll more or less 
> subtly, and this behaviour has been going on for years.
>
> The lesson should only be that the leadership **should not have 
> to listen to this whole load of non-sense** from anonymous 
> low-achievers that blame their tools. And they want things that 
> works well to fail with them.
>
> Do you imagine half the users of python-dev publicly berating 
> Guido, every day for anything he would says? No, because that 
> would be incredibly ridiculous.
>
> Hence why we have so many "helpful", anonymous poster who come 
> with bullet lists of things to do, every day. This must stop 
> because it is neither helpful nor with good intentions.

As an occasional visitor here I tend to agree. The last batch of 
leadership tips comes from an outsider who preaches things done 
for years. He gives pages of advice on management but admits he 
is "not good at project management". It's just a "feeling" he 
has. He will contribute nothing and will be gone after having his 
ego-trip orgasm.

Look for good people and make a plan, what a new idea. They've 
been looking for people, recall Andrei's lieutenants and czars 
that never showed up. They've made plans, visions are since 2015:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2015H1
Looking at all docs it seems nobody worked on what's there and 
I'm not surprised they stopped putting them out.