Generality creep

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 29 March 2019 at 16:26:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> It's most interesting what happens with Walter. He is one of 
> the best hackers (in the Paul Graham sense) I've ever known

Walter is a brilliant programmer whose historic experience is exceedingly valuable. You're also an excellent programmer and a good writer who brings very valuable higher-thought discipline to library design.

Where you guys are weak is project management. A project manager needs to set clear expectations, facilitate communication among the team, prioritize work based on real world requirements, and motivate the team to do that work, striking the right balance between autonomy and direction to maintain morale while meeting requirements.

I'm sure facebook has some good managers who keep that room of engineers focused on the big picture and willing to come back to work week after week. D needs a good manager too. They make a real difference.

I betcha if we got a good manager, contributors would be a lot happier working in a shared direction and the manpower problems the PR queue sees now would evaporate. And best of all, it'd let you and Walter go back to doing the awesome work you really excel at, instead of arguing with the community so much.