DLF Response to Generative AI and D: An Open Letter

[Serg Gini]

On Friday, 17 July 2026 at 11:59:27 UTC, Indraj Gandham wrote:
> The letter was an attempt to avoid this outcome, but the 
> response from DLF makes it clear that they will be doubling 
> down on their existing approach. This is not to say that the 
> response was not well-intentioned or did not acknowledge the 
> concerns raised.

But this is cool! Currently github is showing 707 forks of dmd.. 
having more forks is good!
And especially LLM free or with slightly different approaches.
It is doing DMD more "anti-fragile". And if for some highly 
unlikely situation upstream repo will fail because of the 
selected approach, D users will have "back-up" solutions!
So thanks to all fork maintainers!

> I would also like to point out that there is already a lot of 
> permissively licensed D code available on the internet. There 
> is nothing stopping DLF from tidying up and shipping this code 
> as part of Phobos v3 instead of relying on LLMs to write "new" 
> code.

Please send PRs

> It may similarly be possible to rewrite existing C libraries in 
> D, provided that the original license conditions are adhered 
> to. If the codebase is complex, LLM assistance may prove useful 
> in clarifying any ambiguities. There are many potential 
> applications of LLMs which do not incur the risk of copyright 
> infringement.

PRs would be cool yeah