We are forking D

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 9 January 2024 at 21:56:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/9/2024 10:23 AM, Abdulhaq wrote:
>> * Languages such as D need a BDFL who spends more time 
>> managing and orchestrating developments than cutting their own 
>> code.
>
> The trouble is there are some coding problems that only I can 
> resolve. For example, nobody else is crazy enough to have 
> embedded a C compiler into D. Heck, I thought it was a crazy 
> idea for a couple decades.
>
> Would anyone else have implemented an ownership/borrowing 
> system for D? It exists as a prototype in the compiler now, 
> though it's been fallow for a bit as too many other things are 
> happening. I know its design is controversial (Timon doesn't 
> like it at all!), and it hasn't yet proven itself.

If you contribute this work to the fork, you'll have folks to try 
it out and provide feedback, and you won't have to add 
experimental flags to the compiler or mess with the compiler at 
all.