We are forking D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 06:54:17PM +0000, IGotD- via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 January 2024 at 17:55:56 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> > 
> > Growing greatly dissatisfied with how things are in the D
> > Programming Language, we decided it is time to fork it......
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > Thank you, and good luck.
> 
> That's good news but who are "we" in this case?

>From the looks of it, GrimMaple and Adam Ruppe.  Don't know who else.
Maybe Jonathan Marler?  Some openness(!) on this front would be
appreciated.


> The name OpenD is ok, I was thinking to naming it "D professional" but
> that's not so important.

I actually thing Boulder (or boulDer) would be a much better name than
OpenD.  Adam would understand why. ;-)


> This is a decision that is long overdue and I am happy that it is
> finally happening. It is also very unfortunate but there is simply no
> other way in order to progress. The important thing is that you get
> productive people on board who wants to contribute.

If there's a way to get Kenji Hara back, then there'll be a fighting
chance that this will actually succeed. Maybe also Bearophile, but may
be too late by now.


> Also is there a new forum that we can use in order to discuss things?
> I'm talking about a forum and not a chat group.

Yeah, that would be much preferred. I'm not interested in joining
discord just for this. Same reason why I'll never sign up for FB.


T

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