Plan for D

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Friday, 21 May 2021 at 08:43:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Do like those projects, the powers at the steering wheel should 
> stick with the original design and push it no matter what, 
> instead of switching direction every couple of years and never 
> finishing it.

There is no future for a glorified scripting language, there are 
too many powerful alternatives for scripting. That is effectively 
proposing long tail decay as a strategy.

D has to support those that use D for scriptlike programming 
today, but there is no future in it, if that is all it aspires to 
do well.