Does D have any political goals?

[thebluepandabear]

On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 22:20:40 UTC, thebluepandabear 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 21:58:36 UTC, Filip wrote:
>> On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 05:30:20 UTC, thebluepandabear 
>> wrote:
>>> After that, I began to learn about all of the social 
>>> justice/political statements that Rust was putting out over 
>>> the last couple of years in regards to topics unrelated to 
>>> programming, this made me feel very uncomfortable -- not 
>>> necessarily because I disagreed with what they were saying 
>>> (in fact I agreed with most statements), but mostly because I 
>>> felt like  politics shouldn't be involved in a programming 
>>> language.
>>
>> I'm surprised to learn that rust isn't apolitical, I made an 
>> account to say this haha
>
> Hey,
>
> I wouldn't go as far as saying that Rust is political, as in 
> encourages users to donate to a certain party/candidate, they 
> are just heavily invested in social issues outside of 
> programming. Some of these social issues I agree with, whilst 
> others I do not.
>
> What I am trying to say is that many of these issues people do 
> not think the same, so it can create arguments in the community.
>
> E.g.: 
> https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/issues/613; 
> https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-says-tech-will-always-be-political/43627?page=3

As a sidenote, I believe that social issues are outside the scope 
of a programming language. People ought to understand that there 
is a time and a place. Posting about social justice issues in a 
programming community is just inappropriate in my opinion, 
especially when it comes to topics in which only one side of the 
political spectrum supports.