We are forking D

[Don Allen]

I view this development positively. The constant strife I've 
observed as a latecomer to D, but as someone who has done and 
managed software development for a very long time, was clearly 
not healthy or accomplishing anything other than wasting peoples' 
energy, because it wasn't converging. This divorce will hopefully 
allow the disagreements to be resolved on technical merits.

Having said that, I want to express my great respect for what 
Walter and the others responsible for D have accomplished. Given 
its conservative objectives (as opposed to something like Haskell 
or even Rust -- "here's a new way to think about computer 
programming"), I think D is very, very good and as a long-time 
language enthusiast, I'm familiar with the competition, such as 
Nim and Zig (which isn't really competition because it is still 
far from releasable quality, both the software and 
documentation). I do admit to having had little experience with 
C++, just enough to share Linus Torvalds' opinion.

That D hasn't taken over the world is beside the point; good 
things aren't always popular, e.g., Scheme, and sometimes bad 
things are very popular, e.g., Windows, JavaScript, C/C++. What 
percentage of the world's music-loving population listens to the 
music of Bach or Mozart?

My opinions, of course.