On 9/16/10 18:48 CDT, Georg Wrede wrote:
On 09/17/2010 01:01 AM, Lutger wrote:
Max Samukha wrote:
After a good amount of hesitation, we have decided to put the QtD
project on hold. QtD has a potential to become a complete and effective
development platform for D but it is not going to happen soon (unless
people with harder hearts take it over). We have spent half of the day
hunting yet another dmd bug-o-feature and that is the last straw.
We offer our apologies to people who put their hope upon the project.
Please come back in a year or two when the language has a stable
compiler with the features fully specified, implemented and debugged.
This is a loss, it must be frustrating for you spending so much time
on it.
Thank you anyway for the effort, it was quite exciting to see QtD
almost come to
be! I hope it will be continued some day.
Having some experience in this, I really don't think other people can
even begin to think what Max feels at this point.
I could go on-and-on about this, but those who've never invested enough
to break their back and then simply be met by folks who !believe! they
have any way of understanding, I really think they should stay shut up.
Well I've used D for my thesis work since 2007, and indeed bugs can be
very frustrating particularly when you're pressured to achieve something
else than just finding your way around issues.
I left the language because of a personal quarrel with Andrei.
I do recall you were annoyed at some point but I failed to perceive the
extent. If there's anything I can do at this point to make things
straight, please let me know.
And that
was long after vigorously defending him in the Big Battle. But that
should not mean I have any second thoughts about what should be done, or
whether we can pull it off.
The language as such, has a niche way bigger than it'd seem, in spite of
reading this NG or the random outside article (found with Google). Man,
I'd love to become an evangelist for D, and I really have a few ideas
(that presumably, most of our long-time contributors recognize), that
would help D in carving its own footprint on the map.
The place and position are now very much clearer to me, than they were
six months ago. This would mean establishing a place that doesn't
necessarily challenge ASM, C, C++, or Python or Java. And, within this
particular place, none of them can possibly challenge D. (!!)
I'm sure we all here would be interested to hear more of your ideas.
Thanks,
Andrei
