D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

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On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 14:26:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> I just spoke with Dicebot about work stuff.  He incidentally 
> mentioned what I said before based on my impressions.  The 
> people doing work with a language have better things to do than 
> spend a lot of time on forums.  And I think in open source you 
> earn the right to be listened to by doing work of some kind.  
> He said (which I knew already) it was an old post he didn't put 
> up in the end - somebody discovered it in his repo.  He is 
> working fulltime as a consultant with me for Symmetry and is 
> writing D as part of that role.  I don't think that indicates 
> he didn't mean his criticisms, and maybe one could learn from 
> those.  But a whole thread triggered by this is quite 
> entertaining.

Interesting, I did not realize that he had left Sociomantic. Even 
if he did not release the article, I think it's a good idea that 
we take some of his criticisms to heart. I, at the very least, 
agree with at least a few of them, and as we've seen, so do 
others.