Is there anyone from the community who works on a search engine, crawler, spider and scraper or on an AI transformer like chatGPT? Although I do not have much experience in these technologies, I would like to join and contribute to the development. I would like to see a product written in my favorite language D.

On Monday, 26 August 2024 at 18:29:02 UTC, Tim Moldazhan wrote:

I'm having this issue with game development, I don't think with technologies like AI transformers (which have notoriously bad publicity due to its userbase and failing to find a good usecase) is easy to get people behind, let alone with a kind-of-obscure language like D. Game development has its unique challenge of it now being so simple everyone is being recommended to be a solo dev, to "ensure maximum author control".

On Monday, 26 August 2024 at 18:29:02 UTC, Tim Moldazhan wrote:

Hi Tim!

I had started several projects related to your list :)
Mostly it was ports of existing projects..

I would suggest to join the Discord and continue discussion there if you are interested.

But honestly the situation is quite bad. There is too much work that need to be finished, until it will be possible to create something serious (at least in AI/transformers area).

Search engine is more “doable”. But again be prepared that you will do everything alone, because at the current stage the community is mostly interested in tinkering with compiler development things, and not very keen to ecosystem improvements :)

On Monday, 26 August 2024 at 20:47:25 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:

Game development is undoubtedly successful because there is a demand for entertainment. But what makes a programming language recognizable? Many languages ​​have gained popularity due to large projects such as Unity (C#) or AI (Python) and innovative technologies. I think the capabilities of the D language are much wider and have not yet been fully explored. However, it is difficult for enthusiasts to compete alone with large companies where everything is streamlined. You need to have a good team of not only front-end and back-end coders, but also testers, system administrators, marketers, and so on. Therefore, it’s time for those who are not indifferent to language to unite to implement global ideas.

On Monday, 26 August 2024 at 21:03:23 UTC, Serg Gini wrote:

I see! I have studied projects from other languages ​​for academic purposes and already have theoretical knowledge. I think we will have something to discuss and share ideas. Let's outline tasks. We can continue your projects, anyway we have a common goal. I hope many people will want to join after reading the post. I'm in!

On Monday, 26 August 2024 at 20:47:25 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:

I think d game dev lacks a crystallization site; not everyone believing its easy enough to solo dev

On Monday, 26 August 2024 at 23:27:45 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

What is crystallization?

On Sunday, 1 September 2024 at 04:33:11 UTC, Kapendev wrote:

The formation of structure from loose elements

Supercooling is the more interesting idea

On Sunday, 1 September 2024 at 09:31:53 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

I like that word, but I'm not sure what you mean :)

Rust has a nice site called something like "Are We Game Yet" where you can find libraries for game development. Is that something that could help with crystallization?

On Sunday, 1 September 2024 at 12:53:08 UTC, Kapendev wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8xusY3GTM

No one has credibility to be a be the lead of a big project, no 2 projects seem worth combining, so no one will take the unnesery social cost of being subservient to join what is likely just the same failed project odds as going solo. Even if someone is idealistic, and wants to combine raylib projects in superfesial way, it also apperently doesnt work.

What happens if you skip several steps to a project where the lead knows to hire pretty indiscriminately, and has 5 people on board already?