The forked elephant in the room

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On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 10:33:13 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 00:14:50 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
>>
>>> P.S. We also have some contributors who have a long track 
>>> record of superb contributions. They also have a consistent 
>>> commitment to promptly fixing anything that goes wrong with 
>>> it down the road. Yes, they get a lot less scrutiny. They've 
>>> earned it.
>> Care to give a few names?
>>
>
> What is your contribution to D?
>
> As Walter says forks are good. But please go work on your fork 
> and make it great, rather than complaining here.
>
> If OpenD is good, it will be good competition to D and help 
> spur things. But on the other hand, it requires full time 
> dedicated & knowledgeable people to maintain a language, so it 
> remains to be seen whether anything comes out of the fork.

Yet another person telling "don't complain, just do things", I 
got tired from these, nothing works that way. Complaining is 
needed for improve.

> What is your contribution to D?

The fork, OpenD is pretty enough, contribution doesn't have to be 
directly change in original code.

> But please go work on your fork and make it great, rather than 
> complaining here.

Do you think all people do here is just sit and complain? Do you 
even check OpenD's codebase for updates?