Andrei's Google Talk

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/05/2010 01:23 PM, retard wrote:
> Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:22:09 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> On 08/04/2010 07:25 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>>> On 08/04/2010 05:16 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I know of several large apps written in D, they're all D1/Tango.
>>>
>>> The incomplete state of D2 has to be the most embarrassing question
>>> that could have been asked at Andrei's talk, but then you'd have to be
>>> familiar with D to ask that question. Andrei likes to talk about
>>> presentations showing only what's good, but he gave a whole talk about
>>> an incomplete language while hawking his book for said language, but
>>> made no mention of D1 vs D2.
>>>
>>> People often ask for a status, but there never seems to be good
>>> answers. Where's the roadmap? What's being worked on? What's left to
>>> fix? Is there a release date that's being worked towards? It used to
>>> coincide with the release of Andrei's book, but that has come and gone.
>>
>> Walter is more silent than usual because he's working very hard on the
>> 64-bit compiler. He hopes to have one by the end of this month. His next
>> big goal is shared library support.
>
> Ok, Walter is working on a 64-bit compiler, then on the shared library
> support. That's great. But many of us would like to know who is
>
>   * managing the communication with the user community
>   * managing the communication with the language/compiler developers
>   * managing the bugfixes to the spec
>   * managing the compiler bugfix release (minor version) process
>   * managing the language development debate
>   * coordinating the future language development (roadmap page of the trac)
>   * managing the public relations with the people outside the core
> community
>
> It seems Walter wants to be a lonely wolf. Nobody else is allowed to do
> anything listed above unless you're Andrei. There are no managers, we
> only have experts working with their favorite features and no
> communication exists between these persons or the community.

I think this is a gross misrepresentation. Are you sure you're not 
forgetting a lot of contributors? If anything, the trend is toward 
opening the doors to more, not less people.

Andrei