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

[mw]

On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 20:06:42 UTC, welkam wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 19:12:14 UTC, mw wrote:
>> And how much has the ordinary language like Java has achieved 
>> in the past 20 years.
> Sun played big role in Java's adoption. Most languages got 
> popular because they had big corporate backer.


Then, who is the big corporate backer behind Python?

Well, I think it’s the community — the community who maintained 
those so many out-of-box, directly useable extraordinary 
packages: numpy, requests, pandas, keras, etc. to name just a 
few. Which are often sought after by other languages’ developers, 
and being simulated to keep the same interface, e.g. “what’s the 
numpy in C#? Java? C++?”

Sure, behind the scene, the work is done by C, but it’s numPY who 
takes the credits.

D has such a native compatibility with C, do we have any library 
that come to the close of the popularity of numpy?


I would say, many times it’s the library packages that attract 
the people to use a particular  language, after all, not so many 
people are as enthusiastic about a particular programming 
language features as you and me or anyone on this forum.

Normally, people use a language — and most importantly the 
*libraries* — to get their job done. That *usage* determines 
which language becomes trendy, becomes popular.

I would say libraries can make a language, or destroy one.

Numpy has made Python’s fame. I think currently D is on the other 
side of this spectrum (after 20 years).