Friday, May 21, 2010

2nd to Last Status Update...

Hey All,

I'm in the real world now, where there is less time for just "what the heck why not" projects, I need to work with my time a lot more strategically now.

I've taken up Taekwando and Hapkido, heavily recommend martial arts to anybody.

I'm probably going to start some sort of open source web toolkit thingy soon :p

That's why this is the second to last announcement.

So I'm not doing D or ArcLib anymore, someone else can take over the project.

I guess I could give some simple advice to the D folks while I'm at it :p
A) Don't make the language a kitchen sink, purge ALL duplicate features and evolutionary stumps
B) Don't split your very small community
C) Make your language inter-operate with other languages

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2 comments:

kikito said...

I hear what you say.

I tried hard to like D, but I encountered exactly the problems you mention.

Then I gave up and started with LÖVE. I'm having more progress there. You can do pretty sick things with Lua.

It is sad to see a project abandoned, I sympathise.

flithm said...

I also left the D community behind, for several of the same reason as you.

It really has the potential to be a great language, but unfortunately project leadership is not only slim to none, it's actually been to the detriment of the language and is keeping it from being a success.