On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 12:46:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 12:26:25 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I realize it's right before the conference, but I'd like to
put out a request for Walter and Andrei to spend five minutes
during your talks laying out some overarching strategy for how
you see D evolving. It could be during the keynotes or leading
off the Q&A panel, but I think it's worth laying a broad
strategy out there.
My vision for D is that we'll get to a point where the
community develops its own infrastructure to push D forward
without the involvement of Andrei, Walter, or the D Foundation.
Things like SciPy, RStudio, and the like. Not just a few side
projects, but really large projects with many contributors.
That's been going on for some time now, W&A and the foundation do
a minority of the work, albeit very important. Mir is in the vein
you seem to want and wasn't driven by them. I think Weka sponsors
some work on ldc, at least for themselves.
But I take your point that it'd be good to see more efforts like
that. I had hoped the bounties would spur some pooling around
particular issues like that, but it hasn't done that well.
