DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Formal Assessment

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/23/20 6:49 PM, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 23.05.20 17:07, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> A fork does exist. As expected it went nowhere. 
>> https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber/wiki/Home. There is a paradox 
>> about forking the language - anyone good enough to lead a successful 
>> fork would also be wise enough to work on the D language instead.
> 
> I can only read that as you calling larsivi not "good enough to lead a 
> successful fork" and not "wise enough to work on the D language instead".
> 
> Walter says: "Belittling [others] [...] is unprofessional behavior."
> 
> He was refering to other people on the forum, of course. But I would 
> expand that to authors of other projects as well, particularly ones that 
> are (even) smaller than D. Punching down is not cool.

The point is on the other side - the barrier is very high. Carrying a 
programming language design and implementation is an extremely difficult 
task.