There's a problem in the D economic system

Chris wendlec at tcd.ie
Sat Jul 27 13:30:56 UTC 2019


On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 11:34:45 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 11:15:10 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> std.v2? March 28:
>>
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/q7j3s0$15n7$1@digitalmars.com
>
> It seemed like he was merely floating the idea of an std.v2. 
> It's not like it was a blog post announcing that work would 
> start on it or actively sought suggestions for a design spec.

This specific post about std.v2 is frequently quoted and people 
say that it gives them hope. I fear, based on past experience, 
that it's yet another new year's resolution that will not 
materialize or will take ages to do so. It seems to me that D is 
trying to emulate Rust and Go, because apparently D is mainly 
used for very specific purposes in the industry, the same areas 
Go and Rust are used in. D is becoming a "specific purpose" 
language as opposed to the "general purpose" language it's being 
advertised as. This would at least explain some decisions made in 
the past. There is of course the danger that Rust and Go will 
"win" and that D will have lost its appeal as a general purpose 
language.

> Regardless, the thread is about a specific issue with how 
> people get paid to contribute to D. The person who is involved 
> with the payments has said on one specific issue, he recognizes 
> some mistakes, and is working to fix improve the situation. And 
> your response is, "yeah, but that's what you always say, they 
> said we would get a new standard library on March 28 and that's 
> four months and I've been counting!" I mean, sometimes you have 
> to give people the benefit of the doubt that they are working 
> in the interest of the community the best they can. They have 
> time constraints, other stuff to work on, family obligations, 
> and any number of other things going on.

I know that Mike is under a lot of pressure (and I believe they 
dump a lot of stuff on him). But the way the whole payment issue 
has been handled (as we learned in this thread) is just bad. 
Nobody can deny that. And it's not the first time that the DLF 
has screwed up. Is getting the basics right asking too much?


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