Does D have any political goals?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 05:30:20AM +0000, thebluepandabear via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> After that, I began to learn about all of the social justice/political
> statements that Rust was putting out over the last couple of years in
> regards to topics unrelated to programming, this made me feel very
> uncomfortable -- not necessarily because I disagreed with what they
> were saying (in fact I agreed with most statements), but mostly
> because I felt like  politics shouldn't be involved in a programming
> language.

+1, a programming language is a programming language, politics belong
elsewhere.


[...]
> I am just here asking whether or not D will keep politics out of
> programming, et cetera, and look -- if D is political then I have
> absolutely no issue, in fact I respect this decision completely. It's
> just that when politics gets involved in programming it puts me off
> instantly, so that's why I asked.
[...]

In the 10+ years I've been here, I have not been aware of any politics
in D other than the politics surrounding the management of D itself.  I
would also be extremely turned off if politics crept into D. IMO,
politics has no place in programming languages. A programming language
should remain a technical tool, and not be mired in political statements
or positions that have nothing to do with the technical merits of the
language itself.


T

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