On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 17:26:50 UTC, bauss wrote:
> It's also very strict and probably have of the posts within Learn here wouldn't be allowed there.

It's the most hilarious aspect. Apparently questions about design don't belong there. As if the moderators don't even know about the concept.

On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 18:52:36 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 17:26:50 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 15:13:28 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>>> But seriously, Stack overflow is a reputation-based system, it very hostile from the very start, when you don't have enough reputation for pretty much everything, and SO vehemently nags you about this on every possible occasion, even baiting you to use functionality only to later tell that you don't have enough reputation to use it. How can anyone like it is beyond me.
>>
>> It's also very strict and probably have of the posts within Learn here wouldn't be allowed there.
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
>
> What about trying to start an own "D Exchange"? I like the possibility to vote for good questions and answers. There are many gems inside the forum, but not so easy to find as in the stack exchange based forums.

A custom forum that isn't based on an email client would probably be better tbh.

On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 18:52:36 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:

> What about trying to start an own "D Exchange"? I like the possibility to vote for good questions and answers. There are many gems inside the forum, but not so easy to find as in the stack exchange based forums.

That wouldn't be a bad thing if it's possible.

Stack Overflow is such a joy when you have losers that contribute nothing to a tag voting to close useful questions based on technical interpretations of the rules. One time it was pointed out that none of those that voted to close a particular question had ever contributed even a single question or answer to that tag. And who doesn't love the comments about non-duplicate questions being duplicates, or demanding additional information that's already in the question.

Stack Overflow is already available. Maybe it doesn't get used for a reason.

On Sun, 2018-03-04 at 21:12 +0000, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 12:01:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > So having D2.999 is fine per se, but advertises a lack of change and a lack of ambition since the language name is D not D2.
> 
> D just doesn't follow semver. If it did, we would have D79 now, nothing else even comes close to this. And I suspect it won't adopt semver because major number would be so ridiculously high and will advertize something else.

I do not see your reasoning here. Has the core D computational model changed? I think not. Does D issue bugfix releases? Occasionally. Thus:

2.79.0

seems like a perfectly reasonable semantic version number for D.

> > Fortran, C++, and Java show an obsessive adherence to backward compatibility and yet they increase their major numbers to give the appearance at least of forward progress.
> 
> C++ and Fortran don't have version numbers, those are brand numbers.

Actually no, they are standards version numbers. Once you have an ISO standard for a programming language semantic versioning is impossible, but the standard number is the version number.

On the other hand this is trivia and so shouldn't become a Big Issue™.

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On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 20:52:10 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> I do not see your reasoning here. Has the core D computational model changed? I think not.

Major number per semver increases when interface changes, D does it pretty often, it is the fastest moving language I know.

> Does D issue bugfix releases?

Those are point releases.

> 2.79.0
>
> seems like a perfectly reasonable semantic version number for D.

It's a reasonable version number, but doesn't follow semantics of semver. You can't blindly assume that different versioning schemes advertize the same things.

On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 21:12:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> D just doesn't follow semver. If it did, we would have D79 now, nothing else even comes close to this. And I suspect it won't adopt semver because major number would be so ridiculously high and will advertize something else.

https://forum.dlang.org/post/drcekmxvfszpwifbukzk@forum.dlang.org>

Am 28.02.2018 um 14:41 schrieb Mike Parker:
> About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his stamp of approval, the survey questions were tweaked, and then it was ready to roll.
> 
> Of course I would love for you to read my blog post announcing it, but if you want to skip the prose and go straight to the good stuff, here's the survey link:
> 
> https://seb134.typeform.com/to/H1GTak
> 
> The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/28/the-state-of-d-2018-survey/
> 
> Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/
> 

Is there a way to directly view the results without taking the survey again?

On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 14:24:42 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:

> Is there a way to directly view the results without taking the survey again?

https://dlang.typeform.com/report/H1GTak/PY9NhHkcBFG0t6ig

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his stamp of approval, the survey questions were tweaked, and then it was ready to roll.
>
> Of course I would love for you to read my blog post announcing it, but if you want to skip the prose and go straight to the good stuff, here's the survey link:
>
> https://seb134.typeform.com/to/H1GTak
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/28/the-state-of-d-2018-survey/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/

Wow, we got more than 500 responses so far. A huge thank you already!
The survey is still open for a few more days, so if you want to make your opinion count now is the last chance.

On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 18:34:57 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his stamp of approval, the survey questions were tweaked, and then it was ready to roll.
>>
>> Of course I would love for you to read my blog post announcing it, but if you want to skip the prose and go straight to the good stuff, here's the survey link:
>>
>> https://seb134.typeform.com/to/H1GTak
>>
>> The blog:
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/28/the-state-of-d-2018-survey/
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/
>
> Wow, we got more than 500 responses so far. A huge thank you already!
> The survey is still open for a few more days, so if you want to make your opinion count now is the last chance.

Today is the final day of the survey. If you haven't taken it, use the last hours ;-)