On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:57:08AM +0000, Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 1 January 2018 at 18:32:37 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote: [...] > > 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
+10000 * 2 T -- It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. -- Henry Ford
