We need a community effort to maintain unmaintained dub packages, suggestions

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On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 01:31:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
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> Every language has unmaintained libraries. You could always 
> fork and fix the errors.

Well, fork and fix is ok for personal project; but for the 
company, they will certainly say: why not choose a mature 
language with mature libraries? why not just use Java / Python / 
C++? why should we spend time fixing the libraries instead of 
getting our (functionality) work done?


I've some threads on this topic of industry use in the past:

April 24, 2012  How can D become adopted at my company?
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/exazrwacogokubvhjauh@forum.dlang.org

June 05, 2016   Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption
https://forum.dlang.org/post/nj2mm1$1hun$1@digitalmars.com


it's almost 8 years now, is D's industry adoption picking up?