On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Jason House <jason.james.ho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I couldn't agree more! > > I never understood why people were so anti-gdc. I would not be surprised to > hear that the gdc developer(s) stopped after hearing just how little people > appreciated their hard work. >
Well, I think it has more to do with the secretive way in which gdc was developed. I don't know that it was intentionally so, but I read through the old NG messages once from back when Dave first announced it, and he always kept things very close to the chest from the very beginning. Others were apparently working on a GCC-based port of D at the same time and going back and forth in the NG about how to get things working, when Dave popped in and said "I have ported D to GCC". I have no reason to believe he was intentionally trying to keep people away from helping him, but he's never shown much interest in collaborating as far as I recall. Some people just prefer to work alone. On the other hand LDC already has multiple contributors and has been developed in an open and welcoming way from the very beginning. --bb
