DMD backend quality (Was: Re: DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion)

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 13:11:21 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
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> Please (D leadership) consider keeping contributors happy, even 
> if that means dropping a backend or OPTLINK or both. Projects 
> that nly person understand can be "unbabyfied" with 
> documentation/Wiki/years of contribution, but not having the 
> problem in the first place is much easier.

I think you need to be a bit more concrete in explaining how 
dropping a backend would keep contributors happy. In the time 
I've been following D, the people I've seen complain about 
multiple backends are rarely participants very long at all. To 
the point, where I would almost suggest putting something up on 
the wiki about the motivation here and then just always linking 
to that when people bring it up every few months. By contrast, 
the people I've observed who were more active participants and 
then stop contributing usually complain about other things, like 
their pull requests being ignored.