VisualD regressions are severe; what do we do about critical infrastructure?

[ryuukk_]

On Friday, 18 October 2024 at 01:06:07 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 10:20:54 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 09:50:06 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>>> Got a spare 500k/USD/year? That's probably what it would take 
>>> to staff the essentials.
>>
>> Typical american mindset, "we only hire people from the Bay 
>> Area or Washington, and they cost us 500k USD a year, deal 
>> with it", "oh we out of funds, call the VCs we need to hire 
>> 100 more people"
>
> There about half-a-dozen people who work on D part-time, 
> uncompensated, on projects that are marked as critical to the 
> DPL/DLF. This does not include myself. 500k is a bare-bones 
> budget to support them.
>
> Or are you suggesting that we should all give up our day jobs 
> and work on D full-time and unpaid so that you can get your 
> free goodies faster? Meanwhile people like Razvan are left to 
> what ... starve? That seems a bit self-defeating as I've never 
> met anybody capable of writing code from a coffin. Humans need 
> to eat. Food is acquired through the use of something called 
> "money". Any donations to projects that do not produce money 
> are strictly on an "as available" basis.
>
> Was that "typical American" jab was an attempt to make me look 
> like a heartless capitalist pig? Maybe try not suggesting 
> starvation as the alternative? Not a good look mate.
>
>> Phobos 3 for example, alreay year in the works, and what's in 
>> phobos 3 today? you guessed right, more templates! yay!
>
> Was anybody under the impression that Phobos 3 was going to be 
> void of templates. If so I apologize for the misleading 
> language. We are hoping to reduce the template usage in a few 
> specific areas, but that's about it. Templates are an immensely 
> useful language feature and we're not going to deny ourselves 
> the use of them.

D needs better marketer then

Weka it now worth 1.6B

https://www.weka.io/company/weka-newsroom/press-releases/weka-nets-140m-in-series-e-funding-at-1-6b-valuation/

They said they love D and it helped them greatly

Perhaps it's time to ask them for help and fund a tooling team?

Same for Symmetry, DConf is nice, but does that help bring more 
people in? what's the engagement of the DConf livestream looks 
like?

Weka browse the forum, time to help us, or we'll sink, you just 
said it, D foundation is low on money! Weka?! help us!