On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 08:40:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 13:09:22 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
ideas that would require a major version change. The thing
about that is that it can't be done incrementally; it's the
rare kind of thing that would need to be planned long in
advance, and would have to amount to a huge improvement to
justify even considering it.
It does not need to be planned long in advance, it only
requires official backing as a side project. They could freeze
current D2 as a stable release and also work on a cleanup.
Instead you get people working on their own forks (myself
included), or spin-off languages that goes nowhere. Because
you need momentum. As a result neither D or the spin-offs gain
momentum. And there are several spin-offs (some dead).
You seem to be assuming that everyone already agrees on which set
of changes should be made to the language. (Otherwise, how could
you expect anyone to "officially back" a side project?)
But agreeing on which changes to make and, especially, which to
NOT make, is the hard part. And it's why you'd need a lot of
planning & discussion up front (if any of us non-founders wanted
to participate). And many people don't understand this, which IMO
is behind a lot of hard feelings in the forums.
