Thank you!

Tejas notrealemail at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 13:35:09 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 8 September 2021 at 13:25:44 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 September 2021 at 12:12:57 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>> [...]
>
> People disagreeing with the future of the language, its design, 
> standard library and management in general.
>
> There was a huge discussion recently due to some PR or 
> something being reverted and people took sides on whether they 
> agreed/disagreed with that.
>
> Some contributors even left because of it.
>
> And it's not something new, as it has happened many times 
> before.
>
> There were used to be a split about the standard library too, 
> where there existed 2 "standard" libraries.
>
> One official and then tango (which of course is somewhat 
> discontinued and has been for years) - which separated the 
> whole community into two groups, those who used tango and those 
> who didn't and often code using phobos couldn't be used with 
> code that used tango.
>
> That's no longer an issue but you'll still once in a while hear 
> people bring it up as if it's a current issue.
>
> There are many more.
>
> Personally I don't care much about all these issues but I've 
> seen them hurt the community over all so many times.

That's the problem of being pure open source and community 
driven, I guess...

It sucks, but I agree with Mike when he says that the fact we 
have gotten this far is a marvel.

Here's to hoping a future D3 will get rid of these problems 
forever!!


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