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

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 15:16:09 UTC, Tourist wrote:
> I'm going by what I see in the discussion and the links shown, 
> not familiar with the codebase. YMMV.
>
> Walter refactors on timeless programming principles, more 
> functional, more immutable, more encapsulation, more 
> information hiding. You don't care for those.

No, those are useful. I think that there are more impactful 
things that can be done.

> You want to refactor file and directory organization

Because we have ~120 source files in the same directory that do 
vastly different things and alphabetic sorting doesn't work when 
the files name need a 'd' prepended because otherwise the module 
name will collide with a keyword. Its a PITA to navigate.

> fluff based on personal preference and fads.

I'm certainly not the only one who wants that.

> The greatest mistake W&A did was to get contributors incapable 
> of doing original work.

I suggest you do some original work (and some research) before 
you accuse others of being incapable of original work. FYI, I 
wrote dcompute, and most of the DMD/Druntime/Phobos PRs merged in 
the last 6 months went through me.

> They bicker forever about reorganizations that do nothing.

That you think the expected value of the reorganisations is zero 
shows you have no idea what you're talking about. I'd recommend 
dropping dropping that attitude until you do.