Coding Assistance Tooling, why so many scattered projects?

[Martin B]

On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 19:49:04 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 17:41:01 UTC, Martin B wrote:
>> I am not here to complain, these are super cool and important 
>> projects. I would like to speak my mind and learn by feedback: 
>> I think that code editing assistance is a important key 
>> feature when it comes to adoption. Maybe it would make sense 
>> to move it closer to the "dlang core tooling" and handle it in 
>> a more monolithic aproach. As i understand, right now there 
>> are several github repos/dub packages, each solving one 
>> specific problem which are depending on each other and 
>> maintained by different people... maybe this sounds like KISS 
>> and single responsibility principle and yada yada yada - but 
>> IMO, it seems to me to be wastefull on ressources in this case.
>
> The reason it's like this is that all of these tools are 
> created and maintained entirely by volunteers in the D 
> community. There's no centralized management.
>
> It's possible in the future that the D Language Foundation will 
> take a more active role in sponsoring and guiding the 
> development of projects like these, but we're not there yet.

I guess "enthusiasts, who love to turn ideas into software" would 
be more fitting, since volunteers usually are under management 
and execute assigned tasks. Management could help - but tbh, who 
wants to be management in his happy place :) And after all, good 
software project managers are actually good devs who get payed 
very good to them away from what they actually want to do: to 
code. So, project management in free software projects is not 
realistic IMHO (exceptions prove the rule :) ). Maybe it would 
help to improve community tooling to improve communication in the 
community and be able to organize and plan efforts as enthusiasts 
- Is there some other place then this Forum to exchange thoughts 
and ideas?