Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 24 21:32:05 PDT 2015


On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D 
> language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult 
> decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years 
> and nine months.
>
> Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I 
> am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time 
> has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward.

Can you elaborate on how you plan to push D forward, other than 
forming the foundation sooner?

> As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am 
> excited many times over about the great challenges and 
> opportunities going forward.

Sorry to hear the two couldn't coincide, but I doubt you will 
regret this move.

> Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with 
> the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get 
> the foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told 
> there are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum 
> posted about progress.
>
> I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation 
> already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' 
> royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind.

Is there some way we can slap TDPL online in a more accessible 
format, like a paid blog of some sort if you'd like to keep it 
generating royalties?  Print and pdfs are such antiquated 
formats, we can do much better.


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