Hello everyone,
why not to make a D language as a project of Apache foundation as it happened to groovy?

On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:08:17 UTC, eugene wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> why not to make a D language as a project of Apache foundation as it happened to groovy?

stupid, D has its own organization.

On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:08:17 UTC, eugene wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> why not to make a D language as a project of Apache foundation as it happened to groovy?

My impression of Apache foundation stuff is it is a graveyard of other people's abandoned stuff.... not the message I'd want to send.

On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:28:04 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:08:17 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> why not to make a D language as a project of Apache foundation as it happened to groovy?
>
> My impression of Apache foundation stuff is it is a graveyard of other people's abandoned stuff.... not the message I'd want to send.

Are you sure? Is it true to hadoop, spark, thrift, tomcat, maven?

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:36:55 +0000, eugene wrote:

> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:28:04 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:08:17 UTC, eugene wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> why not to make a D language as a project of Apache foundation as it
>>> happened to groovy?
>>
>> My impression of Apache foundation stuff is it is a graveyard of other people's abandoned stuff.... not the message I'd want to send.
> 
> Are you sure? Is it true to hadoop, spark, thrift, tomcat, maven?

A double handful of high-profile projects and a bunch of abandoned projects. It's better than a random slice of sourceforge or github by a large margin.

On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:20:50 UTC, lkfsdg wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:08:17 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> why not to make a D language as a project of Apache foundation as it happened to groovy?
>
> stupid, D has its own organization.

@eugene, please see these pages for information:

http://dlang.org/foundation.html

Filing for non-profit status: http://forum.dlang.org/post/nmpbam$30c6$1@digitalmars.com

On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:20:50 UTC, lkfsdg wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:08:17 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> why not to make a D language as a project of Apache foundation as it happened to groovy?
>
> stupid, D has its own organization.

Why the acrid tone. :(

On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 15:44:21 UTC, Seb wrote:
>
> http://dlang.org/foundation.html
>
Wow. This page details Andrei's full name: Tudor Andrei Cristian Alexandrescu. (o_O)

On Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 09:19:03 UTC, Jack Applegame wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 15:44:21 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>
>> http://dlang.org/foundation.html
>>
> Wow. This page details Andrei's full name: Tudor Andrei Cristian Alexandrescu. (o_O)

It's probably to avoid any confusion with the other Andrei Alexandrescu. (warning big LOL)

http://adevarul.ro/locale/targoviste/performanTA-targovisteanul-andrei-alexandrescu-campion-national-culturism-1_50abbb487c42d5a6637f642b/index.html

On Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 09:23:09 UTC, jdfgjdf wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 09:19:03 UTC, Jack Applegame wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 15:44:21 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>>
>>> http://dlang.org/foundation.html
>>>
>> Wow. This page details Andrei's full name: Tudor Andrei Cristian Alexandrescu. (o_O)
>
> It's probably to avoid any confusion with the other Andrei Alexandrescu. (warning big LOL)
>
> http://adevarul.ro/locale/targoviste/performanTA-targovisteanul-andrei-alexandrescu-campion-national-culturism-1_50abbb487c42d5a6637f642b/index.html

Maybe they are the same...so "Alexandresc-Hulk", he blows the skirt when he's angry.