On Monday, August 24, 2015 18:42:59 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D > language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult > decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years > and nine months. > > Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I > am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has > come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. As > sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am > excited many times over about the great challenges and > opportunities going forward. > > Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with > the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get the > foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told there > are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum posted > about progress. > > I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already > has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to > it. I encourage others to respond in kind.
Wow. Sounds financially risky on your part, but if you can afford to do this, then it'll be great for the D community at large. The more resources we can have focused on D, the better. - Jonathan M Davis