On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 19:54:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Given how enormously popular Twitter is for breaking news and
announcements, I think you're wrong about that.
I have just check web pages for several popular programming
languages and have found zero using twitter instead of a news
feed. Popular? Applying general statistics (internet users) to an
extremely narrow specialized group of people (programming
language consumers) is not going to work.
Also it ties important information channel to an external
closed
service which is never good for the reputation.
It is a service that belongs to specific corporation and is
completely controlled by one providing no means for federation
and/or self-hosting. Random move from Twitter and D web site can
loose its only news feed. Outsourcing primary infrastructure does
not smell good.
A large number of improvements have been made by someone
showing enough interest to actually drive forward the changes
needed to support their interest. For example, Brad Roberts and
Bugzilla. Vladimir and the D forum software. Etc.
Which mostly highlights how awesome some members of D community
are :) But why not lower entry barrier? By the way, I have
already asked a question in that regard - if someone comes up
with a more dynamic web site implementation which is still based
on D stack, will it be accepted?
