On the panel discussion at Dconf day 3

[harakim]

On Friday, 22 March 2024 at 08:58:14 UTC, surfcrone wrote:
> IVY = bureaucracy + religion, recipe for disaster, and we are 
> already seeing the effects: the language is now in a deep 
> freeze state

Hah! I can see why you think that to be sure. I just feel 
differently. Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up. By 
stabilizing the language, all the things D is missing will start 
coming into play like libraries, IDE support and so forth. A vast 
majority of tools and libraries built with D will not compile 
today so are unavailable. Imagine if you built a tool and it 
worked forever, like in Java or C#. Instead of constantly needing 
to rebuild old tools and libraries, you could work on new ones. 
That's what problem they are solving. Additionally, the editor 
issue is getting help with the language server and other things. 
I think if editions are done right, you will see D in the top 20 
tiobe index finally and that alone will give it a bump in 
popularity.
   I even think OpenD will be a good thing for D. Mainline D will 
continue to attract companies and people who want stability. 
OpenD seems to be moving towards a more modern entry-level 
approach with a single tool to do everything and including tons 
of libraries from the get-go. The cross pollination is going to 
be hard to compete with. Adam Ruppe is one of the best developers 
I know and the Mainline D language has some of the brightest 
minds in language development. In short, I have never been more 
excited about D!