Future of D

[Imperatorn]

On Monday, 30 October 2023 at 17:52:19 UTC, A moo person wrote:
> I would say it's a mistake to rely on D in the current state of 
> things. The honest reality is the language has stagnated. I 
> been lurking in these forms for like 10 years now, use to post 
> a lot under a different name, I honestly regret writing so much 
> personal code in D because I can't reasonably see a future for 
> it with how D has gone. There is a perpetual unwillingness for 
> D to change in any meaningful way.
>
> I still pray one day someone will fork the language and start 
> working on a D3 to break the stagnation that is the current D, 
> but its a pipe dream...

I hear you, I am just a bit more optimistic. I think if we just 
can agree on some things, D can still thrive. But at the same 
point I hear you, phobos for example hasn't changed much since 
2019 when Andrei, Wilzbach and Jack Stouffer stopped contributing.