A strategic vision for D

[Joakim]

On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 12:46:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 12:26:25 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> I realize it's right before the conference, but I'd like to 
>> put out a request for Walter and Andrei to spend five minutes 
>> during your talks laying out some overarching strategy for how 
>> you see D evolving. It could be during the keynotes or leading 
>> off the Q&A panel, but I think it's worth laying a broad 
>> strategy out there.
>
> My vision for D is that we'll get to a point where the 
> community develops its own infrastructure to push D forward 
> without the involvement of Andrei, Walter, or the D Foundation. 
> Things like SciPy, RStudio, and the like. Not just a few side 
> projects, but really large projects with many contributors.

That's been going on for some time now, W&A and the foundation do 
a minority of the work, albeit very important. Mir is in the vein 
you seem to want and wasn't driven by them. I think Weka sponsors 
some work on ldc, at least for themselves.

But I take your point that it'd be good to see more efforts like 
that. I had hoped the bounties would spur some pooling around 
particular issues like that, but it hasn't done that well.