Why Phobos is cool

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On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 09:23:46 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 01:58:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> Never in my life have I thrown so much work at such an 
>> unending pit of hostility. Years and years of my life, and 
>> some of my best work ever. Hundreds of thousands of lines 
>> written. Many more reviewed, to be fought tooth and nail by 
>> people whom I was just trying to help improve. The contrast is 
>> fascinating, because many companies are ready to pay handily 
>> for the very same thing, and the C++ community has always been 
>> happy with much less significant work. I was never able to 
>> explain this all to myself. But clearly there's something 
>> wrong about it. We seem to be dealing in some counterfeit 
>> expertise currency.
>>
>> To this day, many moons after I stepped aside, there's no week 
>> going by without somebody in this forum putting the poop on 
>> something I've done, or teaching me how I should have done it.
>
> Let me try and compensate by saying Thank You, which I think 
> has not been said enough. The day you announced that you quit 
> your job at Facebook to work on D 100% was like Elon Musk 
> announcing they would build a network of super chargers: it 
> gave a huge confidence boost. Just WOW. So thank you, and I’m 
> glad to see an increased involvement from you again recently.
>
> — Bastiaan.

Same feelings here.

Thank you Andrei.