Vision

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On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 08:31:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I just stumbled across this recent Rust blog post where they 
> laid out their vision for the rest of the year, thought it was 
> very well done, strategic and specific:
>
> http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/14/Next-year.html
>
> D really needs something like that: I'm hoping the next vision 
> statement will at least move in that direction, ie more 
> concrete.
>  I've been asking for a list of priorities from the core team, 
> say a list of bugzilla issues that they think are important, 
> but at least higher-level specifics like that would be useful.  
> It might help to reach out to more of the core team to write 
> the next one, as Walter and Andrei may not be keeping track of 
> all the initiatives that are underway.  I realize D development 
> is likely more unplanned, but no reason we can't collect some 
> common medium-term goals in one place.

Some visions for 2016 I guess:

* D Foundation
* ddmd
* std.allocator (important since various other Phobos additions 
wait for it)
* ARM/mobile support

It is more of a communication issue. There is no official place 
for news (like http://blog.rust-lang.org/). Andrei is kind of the 
spokesperson, but I'm not sure if he even wants to do that?

Maybe a more community based vision process would be an idea? For 
example, have a special session at DConf, where you put some 
Etherpad on the screen and write a vision statement until next 
DConf together. (I have never been able to attend, so no idea if 
this is feasible)