Does D have any political goals?

[Quirin Schroll]

On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 05:30:20 UTC, thebluepandabear 
wrote:
> For the next couple of days I was trying very hard to find an 
> apolitical language to learn instead of Rust, and I stumbled 
> across D. D seemed like a good language to learn and I saw that 
> the community was *extremely* nice, although I am not sure 
> whether D is an apolitical language (or whether they have been 
> involved politically).

D and the forum are as apolitical as it could be. Probably, I 
would not mind the D Language Foundation reaching out to 
politicians because of problems in the industry that change in 
regulation might fix.

I was here in 2016/17 and 2020/21 when American presidential 
elections took place, which were probably the most political 
events in the recent past concerning an English-language forum. I 
don’t remember vividly what was here in 2016/17, but I guess I 
would if the forum had been full of posts regarding the election. 
In 2020/21, I remember discussions about politics almost 
everywhere, but in this forum, people were pleasantly happy to 
ignore American politics. **To me, it was a place I could go to 
to get away from it.** I remember seeing one thread; this here is 
the second political thread on this forum I stumbled upon (I 
consider this a political thread, even if it’s about politics in 
general). I very much do hold political opinions as probably a 
lot of people here do, but it seems **all** forum posters 
self-evidently understand that here is not the proper place for 
it. I’ve not witnessed Walter or anyone else in management ever 
needing to keep politics out of the forum.

> I am just here asking whether or not D will keep politics out 
> of programming, et cetera, and look – if D is political then I 
> have absolutely no issue, in fact I respect this decision 
> completely. It's just that when politics gets involved in 
> programming it puts me off instantly, so that's why I asked.

I guess there is only one instance when talking about politics in 
a specialized forum like this is appropriate: When (proposed or 
implemented) regulations affect forums per se or the topics it’s 
concerned with.