bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
there's been a sharp
increase in bug reports and patches recently. Walter and I are still
scratching our head over that (it's not like dmd got much crappier
overnight). I can only infer that more people have started using more of D.
I think it's mostly a complex consequence of showing DMD source code. I have
"predicted" this outcome in one post more than one year ago.
Yes. It's the simple fact that you can compile DMD out-of-the-box. In
fact, everyone who has downloaded DMD is "forced" to have a working copy
of the source code!
It's interesting to compare this with GDC, which, with the GNU license,
is a purer form of "free software". Yet, it's amazingly difficult to get
it to compile (I tried once, and failed).
It's not just about having source code "available".
