On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 08:31:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I just stumbled across this recent Rust blog post where they
laid out their vision for the rest of the year, thought it was
very well done, strategic and specific:
http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/14/Next-year.html
D really needs something like that: I'm hoping the next vision
statement will at least move in that direction, ie more
concrete.
I've been asking for a list of priorities from the core team,
say a list of bugzilla issues that they think are important,
but at least higher-level specifics like that would be useful.
It might help to reach out to more of the core team to write
the next one, as Walter and Andrei may not be keeping track of
all the initiatives that are underway. I realize D development
is likely more unplanned, but no reason we can't collect some
common medium-term goals in one place.
Some visions for 2016 I guess:
* D Foundation
* ddmd
* std.allocator (important since various other Phobos additions
wait for it)
* ARM/mobile support
It is more of a communication issue. There is no official place
for news (like http://blog.rust-lang.org/). Andrei is kind of the
spokesperson, but I'm not sure if he even wants to do that?
Maybe a more community based vision process would be an idea? For
example, have a special session at DConf, where you put some
Etherpad on the screen and write a vision statement until next
DConf together. (I have never been able to attend, so no idea if
this is feasible)
