On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 01:10:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/24/2014 4:50 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 00:34:30 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Thought I'd post this as a counterpoint to the recent "please
break our code"
thread.
I would caution against putting very much weight in Reddit
opinions - there's
people who will never use D and just look for excuses to
justify their prejudice
and there's people who think they want something, but don't
really have any idea
(this is common in feature requests, as I'm sure you know)
That comment, in particular, seems very questionable to me.
dstats at least
compiles out of the box and has github activity within the
last few months. It
has a lot of templates, so maybe actually using it would
reveal compilation
problems, but at quick glance it seems to work.
I know it's a tough call. But I do see these sorts of comments
regularly, and it is a fact that there are too many D libraries
gone to seed that won't compile anymore, and that makes us look
bad.
If that it's the problem, it's time to go ahead with an explicit
support for the work done in dfix, no?
It's not a silver bullet, but it's a clear indication to the
potential adopters that there's a plan, and actively indicate
that definitely "we care" about that particular issue, common to
every language.
---
/Paolo
