Being Positive

[Dave Jones]

On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran 
wrote:
> Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who 
> is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself? 
> I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust 
> forum and so on. Do you think it will help in reminding people 
> not to post any negative things? It shouldn't become strict 
> moderation, but at the same time, I really don't like seeing so 
> much negative trend. I would even go to the extent and suggest 
> to email Walter/Andrei in person (even if they don't agree) to 
> vent your frustration with D, but please don't post it on the 
> forum.

I think the thing is that the main D newsgroup has always felt 
like a bunch of people arguing over how to make D better, and 
that's kind of what it's always been, new ideas and directions 
are discussed in here by the main devs. Do Go and Rust have 
similar user groups, or do they do all that kind of stuff behind 
closed doors and then dictate from the top of a tower?

Arguing, friction, grumbling, it's all a symptom of Ds open 
volunteer based development process IMO.