We are forking D

[Daniel N]

On Tuesday, 2 January 2024 at 21:16:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 08:54:49PM +0000, Luna via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> For the love of everything good, if you want to fork D, please 
>> don't *name* it D, that could create another wave of issues 
>> where people think OpenD is *actual* D and getting confused.
> [...]
>
> I propose Boulder.  Or boulDer. ;-)
>
> I'm more hoping that this drastic action would force things to 
> change for the better, rather than that this would become an 
> actual, hard fork. Boulder, the thing that forces things to get 
> rolling again. :-D  The thing that makes D r0x^WI mean, boulder 
> again. :-P
>
>
> T

You only need one single feature to succeed. AST macros, it can 
greatly accelerate innovation as not every contributer needs to 
be a compiler dev. It could also help evaluating experimental GC 
features.