Coding Assistance Tooling, why so many scattered projects?

[Paul Backus]

On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 17:41:01 UTC, Martin B wrote:
> I am not here to complain, these are super cool and important 
> projects. I would like to speak my mind and learn by feedback: 
> I think that code editing assistance is a important key feature 
> when it comes to adoption. Maybe it would make sense to move it 
> closer to the "dlang core tooling" and handle it in a more 
> monolithic aproach. As i understand, right now there are 
> several github repos/dub packages, each solving one specific 
> problem which are depending on each other and maintained by 
> different people... maybe this sounds like KISS and single 
> responsibility principle and yada yada yada - but IMO, it seems 
> to me to be wastefull on ressources in this case.

The reason it's like this is that all of these tools are created 
and maintained entirely by volunteers in the D community. There's 
no centralized management.

It's possible in the future that the D Language Foundation will 
take a more active role in sponsoring and guiding the development 
of projects like these, but we're not there yet.