On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:14:02 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 13:51:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
DIP 1028, "Make @safe the Default", has been accepted without
comment.
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1028.md
"without comment" - even though there were a lot of unaddressed
problems :/
Great! So what's the entire point of this process?
To give people the illusion of progress and participation?
Why we can't we have a technical board where the community can
vote in experts and potentially companies could even buy a seat
for $$$ which would mean a lot more for them than the current
very vague sponsorship options.
I'm aware that Walter doesn't like the idea of giving up
ownership, but it makes all the other people question why they
should still bother with this process and not simply fork and
move to an open, transparent development...
I honestly don't know if that would help. We'd be moving from a
system where Walter makes decisions based on his mood on a
particular day to one where others make decisions based on their
moods on a particular day. The only thing worse than letting one
person choose what to implement is having a group of people
choose what to implement.
Everyone has their own view of what is important. In my case,
it's beginners and appealing to less technical users. Others view
20-year C++ programmers that specialize in performance
optimizations as the only ones that matter. Needless to say,
there's not a lot of overlap in the set of changes we think make
sense. No matter who is making the decisions, the tradeoff
between ease of use and technical awesomeness will continue to
exist.
The problem as I see it is someone making a decision on his own
DIP. That just doesn't make any sense to me, and I've stated that
numerous times. Walter has a tendency to throw gas on the fire by
ignoring much of the feedback and not spending time to understand
the points others are making when he does respond. I really think
you should have to convince *someone else* that your proposal is
reasonable.
