Is Andrei Stepping Back from D?

[Timon Gehr]

On 18.08.19 11:45, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 00:10:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Reading between the lines, I get the impression that you have given 
>>> up on evolving D as a language? Can't say I am surprised.
>>
>> You must have been in a state of continuous surprise over the past 15 
>> years then.
>>
>> This asinine remark reminds me of the rumor mill on the hallways at 
>> DConf 2019. "What happened to Vladimir? You must have done something 
>> terrible to him." Sure, let's confront Vladimir on why he only put one 
>> decade of his career into volunteering for a free project.
> 
> Since you are being abusive I didn't want to reply ...

Andrei's post is on point.

> but then it 
> occurred to me maybe my remark is misunderstood. I meant that having 
> given so much to D, and perhaps not getting the outcome you desired for 
> D, it is understandable if you decided to move on.
> ...

This phrasing is not a lot better. You should have just apologized.