On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 02:28:34 UTC, nbro wrote:
Hi!
I've been following D for at least one year. I like it and I
think it's a very good programming language, even though I do
not agree with everything it's being done.
One thing that has saddened me is seeing a lot of D's users
trying to implement their own library or maybe trying to
implement multiple libraries at the same time. Most of the
results are very poor because libraries are not
1. completed
2. maintained
3. well-written
I've seen comments like "I'm no more maintaining this library
because I'm not able to proceed since I do not have the
skills". This of course doesn't bring any credibility to the
language, to the community, etc. So we see some people trying
bring the caravan forward, but I many of these people are not
qualified enough clearly, since they do not even have the
vision and the knowledge that starting a project like creating
a serious GUI or modern IDE is not an easy task, and definitely
it won't be a person alone that will create one a decent amount
of years that will compete with the most performant ones.
My idea (which is mostly directed to the big names behind D) is
that team work should somehow be promoted.
How could you do such a thing?
One possibility could be to announce interesting and useful
projects in D and somehow ask for people interesting in working
in such projects. These people should clearly be qualified for
the job, but this isn't an easy task to verified. The projects
could eventually or not be backed up by the announcer of the
project.
These could be a few starting ideas and options.
I have a game engine in the works, but as I plan to use it as my
master's thesis (if I find a consultant for it) I cannot really
let others to work on it until I either have to give up using it
for my thesis or wait until I get my college degree.
However I have other plans to. Some of them include:
- Creating a more advanced replacement for MIDI, either making
my plans that are based upon 128bit packets, or get something
usable out of OSC...
- ...alongside with a new audio plugin system.
- I created a GUI system for my engine, but I like it so much
that I planned to make it usable outside of my engine, and it
could be used for D based applications or even in operating
systems like PowerNEX.
On these I could get any person who want to help me right in from
the start.
