Why Phobos is cool

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 01:58:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> The simple fact is I'm not an expert in package management or 
> IDEs. I could probably learn how to do it, but it's unlikely he 
> result would be anywhere close to world-class. In the meantime, 
> I did think I could do a decent job at writing a standard 
> library and helping with the language definition and there was 
> an obvious necessity for those, too.

We all know the concept of comparative advantage. It definitely 
wouldn't make sense for you or Walter to work on a package 
manager or IDE. I concluded long ago that the lack of a 
productive community was holding D back from achieving what other 
languages have.

> Yes, that's a good point. It is self-evident to me that I have 
> not been a good leader

I don't agree on this point. Imperfect but ultimately we ended up 
with a really good language and implementation that works well 
for many of us. I am very thankful for all the effort you put 
into the language.