Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 14:44:06 UTC, Chris wrote:
> The question is: What made him leave?

A combination of him seeing the foundation as wasting money on 
the idea of conferences, a traditional D forum debate™ that 
followed, deletion of some posts by moderators, and their 
refusing to go back on that.

> Nobody seems to care about that, which I find both surprising 
> and sad.

I care, and was very annoyed about the response.

> He wasn't just a random user, you know?

I know, it is a great loss.

>> There are open PRs that sit on Github rotting, you have a list 
>> of bugs that you added but you got no response or some 
>> unsatisfactory response, you donated a bunch of money for a 
>> goal that was not realized. Something?
>
> Where should I start?

I do the Pull Request management these days. Assuming your own 
PRs: rebase it, then ping me (I'm a bit busy at the moment with 
conferences and my regular mail client is geolocked (stupid MS 
security setting that I can't figure out how to change so I 
apologise for any late replies).

>> I can see that constructive criticism can be applied anytime, 
>> this is desired and healthy. There are really annoying things 
>> with Dlang management, I really hate the whole Interpolated 
>> Strings debacle for example, but I see that there is wish to 
>> improve and steps are made to fix them.
>
> D would have to be rewritten. It's become unmaintainable.

I don't think its quite there yet, but it is getting dangerously 
close to the brink, hence the AGM for sorting this stuff out. If 
you have any topics that you feel need discussing and are not on 
the list[1] already, please make a PR.

[1]: https://github.com/thewilsonator/Dlang-AGM