Plan B for D

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I agree.  I think the language's design is just perfect, and given that 
I've noted many things I think should change I wanted to note that.

Sure, it'd be great for people to be able to pick up if Walter decides 
to move on (which I hope is the end of his involvement in this project, 
not his death.)  But, people can learn from him and be involved in the 
process just fine without needing a committee.

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David Wilson wrote:
> On 1/26/08, Christopher Wright <dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> renoX wrote:
>>> IMHO, D will either die or strive depending of Walter: if he manage to
>>> do a similar thing for the language, the website, the documentation, the
>>> library (and by this I don't mean Tango which started first by doing a
>>> Phobos incompatible library!! *) then D will be the next C++, if he
>>> doesn't then eventually D will fade away..
>> If Walter dies, we'll all switch to GDC or llvmdc, but there will be a
>> transition time while we search for people to run the project. We'll
>> probably beg Andrei to get involved. Phobos, being licensed under the
>> GPL, is safe. The Digitalmars website might be toast; I don't know its
>> license.
>>
>> It would be best for D if there were attractive alternatives to DMD at
>> that point, and a stable language spec. The current system has everyone
>> using the same frontend, and that doesn't work terribly well if Walter
>> dies suddenly.
>>
> 
> I'd like to think we'd all be busily observing a moment's silence if
> something bad happened; in any case the fragmentation pissing contests
> and potential "land grab" that may occur afterward would only result
> in better competition, implementations, and perhaps even just, more
> innovative futures for the language. Consider what happened with
> NetBSD.
> 
> In any case the last thing I'd want to see is some sort of "design by
> committee" backup plan. D as a language is a work of art, mostly one
> man's art. The same with Phobos. Let's just appreciate the benefits of
> this while it lasts*. :)
> 
> * I'd like to think, well into the foreseeable future for even the
> youngest of us.
> 
> 
> David.