On Friday, 13 July 2018 at 15:05:05 UTC, Michael 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/
I think this is a worthy cause for the money. I'm glad to see
the D foundation looking more towards investing in these kinds
of community projects, as they make up the D ecosystem that
many opponents of D describe as lacking.
Yeah, indeed all of my friends who tried D and were not convinced
that's it's a good alternative to Go/C++/etc were pushed away by
a bad support in Visual Studio Code. Even those who didn't use
Visual Studio Code (most of them actually).
Like being able to automatically make a foreach loop become
parallel for instance. Invaluable...
Keep up the good work and let's invest still more money in
extending further this fantastic plugin.
PS: Joking... ;)
