On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents don't care about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority list?
1. The vision document was started before the survey and the survey isn't closed, so the survey results don't factor into it yet.
2. The survey results will serve as a set of guidelines for future directions, not as a set of absolute directives. It wasn't a controlled survey and it doesn't reflect the entire D community.
3. Work on BetterC was started a long time ago and isn't going to be abandoned over night.
If something shows up as high priority in the survey, then it makes sense to evaluate its impact and see how we can devote more resources to it going forward. If something shows up as low priority, then we have to take a number of factors into account, (e.g. Is it being worked on already? Are there commercial interests who *do* consider it a priority? Etc.).
In other words, when setting goals post-survey, the results will factor into the decisions, but they won't necessarily be the deciding factor. The survey is a means of getting community input in one place, as opposed to scattered across the forums and reddit comments.
