Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-18 Thread Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 09:54:41 UTC, moechofe wrote: Iain, Adam: Can I concider working with GCD, knowing that only 1 guy knows everything about the project? There are two people behind GDC, don't forget about Johannes Pfau. And don't forget that they are responsible only for the gl

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-18 Thread moechofe via Digitalmars-d
Thank you all for those answers. For me, open source is not a sufficient reason. Look at any random open source github project that has 1 contributor, 10 commits, and dead since 3 years. (like mine) Look at this crapy PHP thing. It as 22 years old, and not ready to be dead yet. Look at that

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-17 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 01:17:36 UTC, Mattcoder wrote: Deserves a patreon. I'd contribute. Matheus. The nice thing about donating to the D Foundation is that my company can match my donations (200%, cha-ching!). They wouldn't do it for a random patreon.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-17 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 at 08:40:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/16/2017 2:09 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: I would be a lot more worried if something happened to me, if I were you. You're right, you're a heluva amazing one man show with gdc. Deserves a patreon. I'd contribute. Matheus.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 10/16/2017 2:09 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: I would be a lot more worried if something happened to me, if I were you. You're right, you're a heluva amazing one man show with gdc.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 10/16/2017 2:03 AM, Rion wrote: Its a serious topic but that gets way too much joking. It is a serious topic. One of the reasons for making it all Boost licensed was to make sure there'd be no legal problems for whoever wanted to pick up the torch. The other thing is to make the user base

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 09:09:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: I would be a lot more worried if something happened to me, if I were you. No kidding. The foundation is irrelevant... it is accumulated knowledge that we'd lose with someone going away. Walter has a lot of it... but so do a lot o

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-16 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 09:03:56 UTC, Rion wrote: On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Its a serious topic but that gets way

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-16 Thread Frank Fuente via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 09:09:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 12 October 2017 at 17:04, moechofe via Digitalmars-d wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? I would be a lot more worrie

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-16 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 09:03:56 UTC, Rion wrote: On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Its a serious topic but that gets way

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-16 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
On 12 October 2017 at 17:04, moechofe via Digitalmars-d wrote: > What is the wanted lifetime of the project? > Is D will manage to pass through time? > It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? I would be a lot more worried if something happened to me, if I were you. Iain.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-16 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Its a serious topic but that gets way too much joking. While D is part of the foundation, tha

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-15 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 10/15/2017 2:36 PM, inspecta-deck wrote: Wo ist Walter? In das Machinen mit der Blinkenlights und Sparken Spitzen.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-15 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 13 October 2017 at 10:07:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/12/2017 8:04 AM, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Just download my engrams into the D-9000 computer.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-15 Thread inspecta-deck via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Wo ist Walter?

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-14 Thread bitwise via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 13 October 2017 at 10:07:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/12/2017 8:04 AM, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Just download my engrams into the D-9000 computer.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-13 Thread Fra Mecca via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? I thought D was already Walter shoot at reaching immortality through singularity

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-13 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? The Walter you known is already a clone, brought back to life for the good of the D empire.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-13 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 10/12/2017 8:04 AM, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Just download my engrams into the D-9000 computer.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-13 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 16:02:31 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Of course. In 40years Wal

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-12 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Yes, because the project belongs to the D Foundation and not just Walter himself.

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-12 Thread Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? DMD, LDC, and GDC are all open source. So I guess the question would be: If everyone else per

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-12 Thread Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Of course. In 40years Walter will be alive.

Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-12 Thread moechofe via Digitalmars-d
What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D?