We are forking D
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh at qfbox.info
Tue Jan 2 19:17:10 UTC 2024
On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 06:54:17PM +0000, IGotD- via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 January 2024 at 17:55:56 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > Growing greatly dissatisfied with how things are in the D
> > Programming Language, we decided it is time to fork it......
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Thank you, and good luck.
>
> That's good news but who are "we" in this case?
>From the looks of it, GrimMaple and Adam Ruppe. Don't know who else.
Maybe Jonathan Marler? Some openness(!) on this front would be
appreciated.
> The name OpenD is ok, I was thinking to naming it "D professional" but
> that's not so important.
I actually thing Boulder (or boulDer) would be a much better name than
OpenD. Adam would understand why. ;-)
> This is a decision that is long overdue and I am happy that it is
> finally happening. It is also very unfortunate but there is simply no
> other way in order to progress. The important thing is that you get
> productive people on board who wants to contribute.
If there's a way to get Kenji Hara back, then there'll be a fighting
chance that this will actually succeed. Maybe also Bearophile, but may
be too late by now.
> Also is there a new forum that we can use in order to discuss things?
> I'm talking about a forum and not a chat group.
Yeah, that would be much preferred. I'm not interested in joining
discord just for this. Same reason why I'll never sign up for FB.
T
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