We are forking D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 06:09:19PM +0000, user1234 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 January 2024 at 17:42:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> I dont see how a D fork managed by Ruppe could be managed in a better
> way.  That would be a downgrade. You oppose someone who spent years
> into trying to maintain a community to someone who gets crazy over a
> single disagreement.

You are free to form whatever opinion you like of me or Adam, it doesn't
bother me. But I have worked with Adam before, and he's generally much
more open to contributions than Walter, and generally more pragmatic
about not holding things up and letting the perfect be the enemy of the
good. And he doesn't strike me as the "crazy" reactionary type, even
though lately, before the fork, he did seem unusually riled up. Which,
given the frustrations he has gone through in the past years, isn't
entirely unexpected either.  And it is far from a merely "a single
disagreement"; that was merely the last straw that broke the camel's
back after many years of pent-up frustration.

I'm not 100% in agreement with his approach either, but given D's track
record, which I've already elaborated on at length and won't repeat
here, I'm interested to see where this leads. It may lead nowhere as the
naysayers are already saying, but it may also lead somewhere D ought to
have been but hasn't gotten to so far for the aforementioned reasons.
It will be educational to see how this all pans out.  Ultimately, I, and
Adam himself as he already expressed privately to me, hope that this
fork will lead to D moving past its present roadblocks and making
progress instead of continuing to stagnate.  The goal isn't to oppose
Walter or anything in the current D leadership, but to bring D forward.


T

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