On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 04:31:43 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
He mentions D, a bit dismissively. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724&cpage=1#comment-1912717
"[snip]...Then came the day we discovered that a person we incautiously gave commit privileges to had fucked up the games’s AI core. It became apparent that I was the only dev on the team not too frightened of that code to go in. And I fixed it all right – took me two weeks of struggle. After which I swore a mighty oath never to go near C++ again. ...[snip]"
Either no one manages SW in his team so that this "bad" dev could run off and to build a monster architecture, which would take weeks, or this guy has no idea how to revert commit.
I stopped reading at this point.
