What don't you switch to GitHub issues

[Patrick Schluter]

On Monday, 1 January 2018 at 18:32:37 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Monday, 1 January 2018 at 02:02:03 UTC, rjframe wrote:
>> That's probably not the best method of effecting change.
>
> It killed off the discussion nicely, indeed.
>
> I am just going to share my thoughts a little. Github, in my 
> opinion, is hype and even though I depend on it today, I am 
> trying to decrease that dependency. We should build a world 
> that is not dependent on single companies. I am not downplaying 
> what github has done for us (I am one of the early users) - but 
> they have just become a little too important for free software 
> to be comfortable. The github issue tracker is wanting anyway.
>
> D is a great language. I just spent 6 months in C++ and the 
> last month worked on a D multi-threaded project again. I'll 
> blog about this soon, but the short of it is that I am very 
> grateful to Walter, Andrei, Kai, Ian, Johan and others for 
> creating a language that fits our needs so well! D software is 
> doing critical work around the world every second. D is 
> probably not a language for the hype community - let them have 
> Go and Rust. I honestly don't care. And D should not care. 
> Great programmers gyrate to powerful languages and toolboxes. I 
> love I can read the source code of Phobos and understand it. I 
> love I get low level access to stack variables. I love I can 
> manipulate the heap in any way I want. I love we can target GPU 
> and KNL. I love we have Maybe even though it is called 
> Nullable...
>
> A great programmer can handle D fine. As it is. Let's not try 
> to be the next hype. Let's keep writing great software.
>
+10000