D is our last hope

[GrimMaple]

On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 19:24:49 UTC, Konstantin wrote:
> * So why is there no language forks? Maybe they are existed, 
> but I have never heard about them.

Personally speaking, I did not fork the language for the sole 
reasoning of "If I am about to singlehandedly support an entire 
language, I might as well just start from scratch and do 
everything to my liking". After all, starting anew is always 
easier than trying to understand someone else's code.

And, about singlehandedly part, I could never get enough people 
to be interested in getting an actual fork going. With how things 
are in D community, when the top library contributors basically 
have their own standard libraries and even runtimes, it's clearly 
not a collaborative environment. But I can't even really blame 
anyone for that, because contributing to D directly (dmd, phobos) 
is usually a very painful experience. So it is easier to just 
write stuff in your own lib anyway.

You can pretty much say that Adam, Hip, Luna, and others already 
have their mini-forks of D. It's probably a matter of time when 
they just fork the compiler too. And I heard rumors that Adam is 
about to do just that.

> * What features should be added to a derived language, in your 
> opinion?

In my opinion, we should actually strip D of features and instead 
focus on getting a decent standard library out so nobody has to 
write their own anymore.