Worse than impolite

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 17:23:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I don't get people to do anything, they're all self-motivated.
>
> Though I do believe it is rare and remarkable that so many 
> wonderful people have generously given so much of their time 
> and expertise. I am most grateful for their gifts to D, the 
> DLF, and the D community. I regard the D community as a 
> community of my dear friends.

I think you are being too modest; people don't just contribute to 
D because of self motivation; if this was generally true then 
every language project would get contributors easily.

Its a mystery to me, but I think that there needs to be an 
environment that encourages and creates that motivation, which 
you have managed to do. Part of this may be the exact opposite of 
what people claimed in the other thread; you have accepted 
contributions from people when they made sense; it requires good 
taste and great insight to see what contributions matter.