D2 Is Non-Profit

(d2lang.com)

31 points | by alixanderwang 7 hours ago ago

12 comments

  • aninteger 2 hours ago

    Just to be clear, this doesn't seem to be based on Walter Bright's D language. Maybe people already know that, but I didn't.

    • keyle 20 minutes ago

      It's pretty clear when you visit the website though.

  • wps 2 hours ago

    > D2 thus far has been a product of handcrafted code. That era is over. This next phase of D2 will be driven by AI. By this, I mean that all of my contributions will use AI.

    This is an interesting twist. While I get the rationale, I remain a bit concerned. I do hope the project remains successful, d2 is great!

    • margalabargala 10 minutes ago

      This is going to be really interesting.

      What does the future of new programming languages look like in the era of AI?

  • dacort 4 hours ago

    Really happy to see this - A few months ago the D2 `play` site looked like it was down or unreachable and I was pretty bummed. It came back, but it did make me wonder about the future of the project - awesome to see that TALA will be released, sorry to hear the company behind it is shutting down.

  • nf-x 3 hours ago

    Oh, does that already integrate with GitHub? Need to check how it deals with layouts and arrows in comparison to Mermaid

    • 0x696C6961 2 hours ago

      I like the mermaid sequence diagrams more. But D2 for everything else. No GitHub integration yet though.

  • sea-gold 4 hours ago

    So is TALA[1] continuing to be developed and/or being open sourced?

    [1] https://github.com/terrastruct/TALA

    • alixanderwang 3 hours ago

      Yes, I'm planning to open-source it tomorrow.

    • dacort 3 hours ago

      In the post it says "I'll be making posts as TALA and D2 Studio are released." so I assume/hope so?

  • _def 3 hours ago

    I'm confused - why is hackclub (a project dedicated to teens) financing this project maintained by an openai infra person?

  • triyambakam an hour ago

    > D2 thus far has been a product of handcrafted code. That era is over. This next phase of D2 will be driven by AI. By this, I mean that all of my contributions will use AI. I welcome AI contributions and will use AI to review your AI, etc. The exception is writing -- I will author all blog posts and comms without AI.

    Really cool, seems like the right balance.