The forked elephant in the room

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 04:20:12 UTC, FairEnough wrote:
> On Friday, 19 January 2024 at 15:05:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> ..
>> ImportC is not a language change, and so did not require a 
>> DIP. ... It had no impact on anyone who wasn't interested in 
>> it.
>> ...
>> ...
>> ... A good proxy for how useful a feature is is the quantity 
>> of bugzilla issues submitted, and ImportC has had a lot of 
>> them! (317 submitted, 274 resolved)
>
> A feature pulled in, essentially without any community 
> involvement at the time, has resulted in 317+ bugs being 
> summitted, and in addition, peoples time (perhaps mostly yours) 
> spent resolving at least 274 of them.
>
> And you're justification is.. "ImportC is not a language 
> change, and so did not require a DIP."
>
> As a developer in the team at my business, if you had done 
> this, then you would have been promptly shown the door.
>

But this where you get it wrong. This is not a business. The 
thing about D is that everyone works on what they want to work 
on. and its perfectly valid for Walter to work on whatever 
motivates him.

It took me a while to grasp this about the D eco-system, but its 
key to getting your expectations right. If you want a business 
like focused approach that managed top-down, this is not it.