Dscanner - DCD - Dfix ... Editor support or the lack of it.

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 21:18:23 UTC, Benny wrote:
> When a new language like Rust is more tooling friendly and its 
> extended platform integrates great with the editor plugins... 
> Its not like Mozilla has hundreds of Engineers on Rust. Its 
> extreme highly community driven.

Even one paid developer makes a big difference. You don't need 
hundreds. Making the problem harder is that many current D users 
don't have an interest in those tools. Therefore you're drawing 
from a small pool of part-time volunteer labor.

> One can only express their hope that there will be a 
> revitalization in the D management and the priorities. From my 
> point of view it feels like D is falling behind when compared 
> to other languages like Rust/C++/Go/... D really needs a 
> project leader that knows the language and starts focusing the 
> resources beyond just the compiler.

It's entirely up to the community. This is not something Walter 
or Andrei should be concerned with. I had hoped the D Foundation 
would lead to a better organization of the community, but to this 
point, that doesn't seem to be the case.