On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 02:59:38AM +0000, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 00:46:00 UTC, rsw0x wrote: > > >Yes, how dare people see D marketed as a non-alpha language then > >realize the language is actually still in an alpha-state. > > It's not in an alpha state. It's a grassroots language. There's no > other way to describe it. Being community driven, it moves in the > direction and at the pace that the community drives it. There's no > large team, no governing body, no committee to drive development. > Everyone using it needs to accept that any particular personal peeve > they have with the language are only going to get changed in one of > two ways: there's enough momentum behind it to cause it to percolate > up to the top of the priority list for the core developers, or if you > do it yourself. That's what it boils down to. > > It's unreasonable to lambast the core developers as wanting to do > nothing to improve the language. There are only so many hours in the > day. Walter and Andrei care very much about this language. So do many > others who are working to make it better, focusing on the areas that > fit within their needs and their abilities. That's why it has come > along as far as it has. > > Debate about which issues should take priority are certainly needed, > but these threads that degenerate into bashing the core developers, or > calling D a "toy" language, serve no purpose other than to waste > bandwidth and make it difficult to discuss what really matters.
+1, the voice of reason. T -- Debian GNU/Linux: Cray on your desktop.
