From the D Blog: Crafting Self-Evident Code in D

[claptrap]

On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 21:03:14 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 19:50:55 UTC, claptrap wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 12:50:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>>>>>On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 07:26:25 UTC, claptrap wrote:
>>>
>>>> I personally found this talk very disappointing. Walter is 
>>>> the head honcho and he's giving talks on coding guidelines?
>>>>
>>>> Its like visiting the F1 engineering workshop and getting a 
>>>> talk on health and safety.
>>>>
>>>> Tell us the engine, about what you're working on, some 
>>>> gnarly problem you've solved, or something cool.
>>>
>>> Walter's a contributor to this open source project like 
>>> anyone else. He's going to give talks on whatever strikes his 
>>> interest at the time. If he was a CEO with a 7-figure salary 
>>> like Mitchell Baker, things would be different.
>>
>> Hes not like everyone else he's...
>>
>> "Walter bright creator of the D Programming Language"
>
> That means he's contributed a lot in the past, so he has more 
> freedom, not less, in choosing what to talk about.

I have never once said he cant talk about whatever he wants to, 
I've explicitly said the opposite. All I said is that by virtue 
of who he is has more interesting things to talk about than 
whether "enum { yes, no }" is a good idea or not.


> Your post is an example of a contribution tax. Those that do 
> the most work on a project are held to a higher standard than 
> everyone else, and they are the ones most open to criticism, 
> including public criticism. It's one reason productive 
> contributors leave open source projects, and why many people 
> turn down leadership positions.

Maybe we should hold people to lower standards the higher up they 
get and see how that works out?