D is our last hope

[monkyyy]

On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 20:07:23 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 19:46:07 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 19:24:49 UTC, Konstantin wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Theres several "I HATE THIS CODE BASE IM MAKING MY OWN 
>> LANGUGE"; "neat" for example
>
> Neat is not a fork! While I do think the DMDFE code base has 
> problems (seriously, figure out a way to dogfood Phobos, it's 
> insane that the premier project in the language refuses to use 
> its stdlib), Neat is more trying to pull D into directions that 
> it's reluctant to go at the moment, ie. good refcounting, 
> better caching, macros, proper package system. See my DConf23 
> talk! At any rate, it's not a fork though, it's a straight-up 
> different language. I steal D syntax wherever I can, but that's 
> just imitation, there's no lineage from DMD to the Neat 
> compiler.

right, forks dont exist because allot of poeple dislike the 
codebase so why keep it?

But its a fork in the sense your starting to leave or making the 
politics change.