On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 15:09:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 14:39:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 23/10/15 3:13 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
[...]
And yet projects like dlangui keep on dying.
Obviously something is not right with how they are.
Projects typically die because they don't have enough people
involved (frequently only one) and those who are involved no
longer have the time and/or interest.
Maybe the color stuff belongs in Phobos. Maybe not. But IMHO,
concerns about 3rd party projects dying off is _not_ a good
reason to put something in the standard library. I don't think
that we want large amounts of code being thrown into Phobos on
the theory that the Phobos devs will maintain it and whoever
wrote it can stop caring.
- Jonathan M Davis
I'd say that projects die becaus they don't have users/traction.
This is very discouraging to the author as he looses faith that
the project makes sense in the first place
