On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 15:07:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/21/20 7:49 PM, Bruce Carneal wrote:
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:32:32 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:14:02 UTC, Seb wrote:
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.
ditto, I think we should have like a seven person elected DIP
committee who pass/fail things by majority vote. It is
obvious to me that the current process is totally useless.
As noted earlier, I'm with Steve, Seb, Adam, and "everyone but
Walter" as far as I can see. If this stands we'll have gone
from @safe meaning "the compiler is responsible" to "the
compiler can't guarantee anything unless you're pure D all the
way down".
Atila, what's your take on all this? Is it fork time?
A fork does exist. As expected it went nowhere.
https://bitbucket.org/larsivi/amber/wiki/Home. There is a
paradox about forking the language - anyone good enough to lead
a successful fork would also be wise enough to work on the D
language instead.
Arguably they would then be wise enough to stay away from D (and
have).
His strength comes with equally unique ability to explain and
debate, which makes many of the discussions in forums very
frustrating.
It is unique that's for sure. That's a good way to put it without
being rude.
