OpenD, a fork of D Programming language
published on 2024/01/14
Contributing development work upstream to D leadership has always been a very frustrating process. While the oft-repeated claim that D is a closed-source language is not really true (the D-specific parts of the compiler were GPL'd as early as 2002, leading to an all-GPL compiler (what we now know as gdc) being released in 2004), it is true that D's development methodologies are not especially open and that decision making has very little meaningful input from the community, and this has been true for its entire history.