On Saturday, 14 July 2018 at 16:19:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Friday, 13 July 2018 at 14:20:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
As promised in my tweet of June 30 (and to the handful of
people who emailed me), the cloud of mystery surrounding the
use of the money raised for code-d and its supporting tools
has now been (partially) lifted!
In this post, I lay out the details of how the first $1000
will be paid out to project maintainer Jan Jurzitza, a.k.a
Webfreak001, and explain what we hope to achieve with this
ecosystem fundraising initiative going forward.
This time around, it all came together in the background of
prepping for DConf with little forethought beyond activating
an Open Collective goal and then working with Jan to determine
the details. Lessons were learned. Later this year, you'll see
the result when we announce the next of what we hope to be an
ongoing series of funding targets.
In the meantime:
The blog
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/07/13/funding-code-d/
Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8yka7b/funding_coded_the_d_blog/
Nice explication of the plan, really needed. Why github never
rolled out such a bounty program for OSS and other public
projects has to be one of the head-scratching moves of all
time, no wonder they were about to run out of money before they
sold.
A good way to decide on future projects would be to let
prospective donors stake money on various proposals, to see how
much backing they might receive, sort of like how kickstarter
and other crowdfunding sites work.
+1
May I suggest the two following improvements for the next
proposals :
1/ integrating a Go-like web server code inside the default
library (http module, fiber and channel async IO)
2/ possibility to use automatic reference counting (with weak
references and optional cycle detection) instead of garbage
collection for automatic unused memory deallocation
The first one to help D compete on the same grounds as Go and
Crystal, and the second to make it usable in the same GC-unwanted
use cases where people currently use C or C++.
Probably just a silly idea, please feel free to completely ignore
it...
PS: Geany is also a VERY nice multi-platform IDE to develop in
C++ and D on Linux, Windows and Mac, for those who still don't
know it...
