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

[Manu]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 03:26, Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 21 October 2024 at 14:12:53 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>
> > Whatever is best for you is the right answer.
>
> Okay I've selected one.  Since I'm about to start using Visual
> Studio for a new project, Visual-D is something I'd like to
> support.  Thanks for putting visual-d upkeep on the front burner.
>

The problem is that there is only one maintainer. He's not interested or
motivated by funding in the past.
In order for it to have a healthier existence, it needs more than one
maintainer, and if another could be motivated with funding then that's
something, but funding needs to be specifically directed to that person.
There's no dlang foundation effort to try and find/fund maintainers for
these essential projects.

The interesting catch that I reckon we can see with Visual Studio, is that
it's usually industry professionals that are using it, and as such they are
less likely to have bandwidth away from their work to work on that. It's
not an ecosystem that lends to hobbyists so much; the overlap in the venn
diagram between VS users and dlang hobbyists is small.
Ideally, a D company that uses VS should direct one of their staff to have
some hours dedicated to tooling... but there aren't any such companies as
I'm aware?
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