On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote:
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 08:42:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/3/2018 8:51 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote:
This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday
(which is today).
We'll stay on Github as long as it continues to serve our
interests, which it has done very well, and I have no reason
to believe will change.
We have a number of ties to Microsoft:
1. It's just down the street.
2. Many D users work at Microsoft.
3. Microsoft has always been helpful and supportive of Digital
Mars, note the files licensed from Microsoft in the
distribution.
4. Microsoft has invited myself and Andrei to speak at
Microsoft from time to time.
5. Microsoft hosts the nwcpp.org meetings, which provide a
venue for me to try out D presentations to a friendly crowd.
6. Microsoft has been generous with helping me solve some
vexing compatibility problems from time to time.
OK, so Digital Mars is in good relationship with Microsoft (I
am surprised because have never heard about it). However,
judging by Microsoft acqusition experience my prediction is
that github will slowly but surely degradate (as suggested on
some forums, everything will be firstly switched to Microsoft
account - to track data, then everything will be mangled by
ads, then some features deemed unnecessary by Microsoft will be
removed, then linux will be badly supoorted, then some features
incompatible with Microsoft services will stop working, then
servers will start work poorly like skype...).
P.S.
My second reaction after reading news (after shock) was to
visit D forum.
Unlikely, you don't spend $7.5 billion on a company because you
want to send a message that you're a good dev tools company, then
neglect it.
I suggest you look at their online slides linked from the Nadella
blog post to see their stated plan, such as integrating github
into VS Code more:
http://aka.ms/ms06042018
Of course, this is Microsoft: they probably won't execute that
plan well, and likely vastly overpaid for an unprofitable company
in the first place, but they emphasize that they intend to keep
github open and independent.
