On the panel discussion at Dconf day 3

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 4 September 2023 at 19:33:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

> For quite a while, we'd received many complaints about lack of 
> vision/direction/management. When we finished the IVY program, 
> I made an announcement to let everyone know we're trying to do 
> something about that. IVY just happens to be the tool we're 
> using to make it happen.
>
> Some of the responses to that were much like yours, calling it 
> a cult, propaganda, etc. I tried to say a bit more about it in 
> another post, and then discussed it in one of our BeerConf 
> sessions, but I could only scratch the surface. I received 
> several DMs and emails about it.

I think the issue is that some view development of the language 
as a programming problem. If that's your view, talking about IVY 
is at best out of place, because it's a distraction from writing 
new lines of code.