On Monday, 1 January 2018 at 18:32:37 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
On Monday, 1 January 2018 at 02:02:03 UTC, rjframe wrote:
That's probably not the best method of effecting change.
It killed off the discussion nicely, indeed.
I am just going to share my thoughts a little. Github, in my
opinion, is hype and even though I depend on it today, I am
trying to decrease that dependency. We should build a world
that is not dependent on single companies. I am not downplaying
what github has done for us (I am one of the early users) - but
they have just become a little too important for free software
to be comfortable. The github issue tracker is wanting anyway.
D is a great language. I just spent 6 months in C++ and the
last month worked on a D multi-threaded project again. I'll
blog about this soon, but the short of it is that I am very
grateful to Walter, Andrei, Kai, Ian, Johan and others for
creating a language that fits our needs so well! D software is
doing critical work around the world every second. D is
probably not a language for the hype community - let them have
Go and Rust. I honestly don't care. And D should not care.
Great programmers gyrate to powerful languages and toolboxes. I
love I can read the source code of Phobos and understand it. I
love I get low level access to stack variables. I love I can
manipulate the heap in any way I want. I love we can target GPU
and KNL. I love we have Maybe even though it is called
Nullable...
A great programmer can handle D fine. As it is. Let's not try
to be the next hype. Let's keep writing great software.
+10000
