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

[aberba]

On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 18:36:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 05:49:27PM +0000, Paul Backus via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]

>
>> Even if we suppose for the sake of argument that the decision 
>> is sound on a technical level, this is poor leadership, and 
>> bodes ill for the future of the D language and its community.
>
> D excels at the technical aspects, but time and time again has 
> shown that it lacks proper management / leadership.  Contrary 
> to my own inclinations I'm compelled to suggest hiring a 
> *non-technical* person to take up the management/leadership 
> roles (emphatically non-technical, because let's face it, we 
> techies just don't have the people skillz it takes to do this 
> properly), because the current situation clearly isn't working, 
> and is quite detrimental to D and its future.
>
>
> T

Ha ha. I tried suggesting something like this some yrs ago as I 
saw it happen and deadalnix bashed me like crazy. Didn't 
articulate it as well as you just did though. This needs to 
happen.