OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
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Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#2My research group left D for Rust several years ago due to nonresponsiveness and poor language development trajectory.
While I wish Adam and the others success with OpenD, I hope they can take the opportunity to pick a more unique/memorable name.
Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#3My research group left D for Rust several years ago due to nonresponsiveness and poor language development trajectory. While I wish Adam and the others success with OpenD, I hope they can take the opportunity to pick a more unique/memorable name.
I nominate "dope", short for "D, OPEned".
Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#4Follow up post: https://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2024_01_08.h...
Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#5My research group left D for Rust several years ago due to nonresponsiveness and poor language development trajectory. While I wish Adam and the others success with OpenD, I hope they can take the opportunity to pick a more unique/memorable name.
I nominate "dope", short for "D, OPEned".
"Dopen" then?
Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#6Looks like there’s an update https://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2024_01_08.h... and they’ve gotten some interest.
Personally, I think it’d have been more fun if they named it ‘Died’ — you get the benefits of sweet taglines “It never Died,” a statement about it being a fork, and the permission to take the language in new directions if that makes sense in the future. OpenD implies full compatibility, etc..
(I have no skin in this game, though. Good luck!)
Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#7D is such a sad case of how a good technical product can fail due to poor leadership and decision making. A language is more than just a compiler, it's also an ecosystem and a community. D's community is actually very welcoming but man, watch some of the DConf videos and Q&As on Youtube and it's cringe seeing key leaders talking down to people, or dismissing people's concerns, or just have this ego about themselves like they know what's best and everyone should shutup and just go along with them.
Anyhow, D went from a language that I remember back in 2015 was often promoted on places like reddit and here as a fresh alternative to C++ that was constantly evolving, to nowadays you rarely hear anything about it at all. I think even Andrei Alexandrescu has given up on it.
Good luck to these guys on trying to bring life back to it, but frankly I think at this point most people have given up and moved on to alternatives like Rust, Nim, Zig, etc...
Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#8D is such a sad case of how a good technical product can fail due to poor leadership and decision making. A language is more than just a compiler, it's also an ecosystem and a community. D's community is actually very welcoming but man, watch some of the DConf videos and Q&As on Youtube and it's cringe seeing key leaders talking down to people, or dismissing people's concerns, or just have this ego about themselves l…
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Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#9D is such a sad case of how a good technical product can fail due to poor leadership and decision making. A language is more than just a compiler, it's also an ecosystem and a community. D's community is actually very welcoming but man, watch some of the DConf videos and Q&As on Youtube and it's cringe seeing key leaders talking down to people, or dismissing people's concerns, or just have this ego about themselves l…
I think the fundamental problem with D is much simpler than that, it's the technical context. D is a better C++, but it's not better enough to escape the gravitational pull of C++. Rust is sufficiently compelling, with its focus on memory safety.
Re: OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
#10D is such a sad case of how a good technical product can fail due to poor leadership and decision making. A language is more than just a compiler, it's also an ecosystem and a community. D's community is actually very welcoming but man, watch some of the DConf videos and Q&As on Youtube and it's cringe seeing key leaders talking down to people, or dismissing people's concerns, or just have this ego about themselves l…
Maybe they shouldn’t bring D back to life… drop the name, make a clean break and come up with a new one.