[tastyminerals2]

Aren‘t these connected? Its about the contribution culture. If there is so much pain that it led to a language fork, what IDE and quality of life improvements from a shrinking community can we talk about? When I started with D several years ago, there were a few meetups and active contributors. These ppl now have left D for Rust and now we have this fork. Does it look like there is success ahead? I would say it looks more like the last desperate effort to change things.

[bachmeier]

I view them as two separate issues. On the one side, there are the complaints about language changes. It's hard to convince Walter to change the language, and it's hard to contribute to the compiler and/or standard library (those are the complaints, true or not).

Then there are problems for users of the language not having enough libraries and a sub-par IDE experience (again, true or not). Go and Rust built communities of programmers that aggressively used the language and made their work available to others. I don't see any reason we couldn't have more of that with the language as it currently stands. Adam certainly had no trouble knocking out hundreds of thousands of lines of nice libraries. Edit: And Ilya doing all his good work with Mir.

The first is a long-term problem. We'll see the effects ten years from now. The second makes it hard to have a reason to use the language right now (largely for anyone that doesn't want to write scripts or interact with C libraries). That's most of what concerns me.