On 3/7/2014 2:30 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I'm a bit sad that Walter is pushing for a large breaking change to D string handling, while Kenji's pull, which is a non-breaking enhancement that would lead to much better D support for many numerical computation applications, has been stagnating for at least a year (probably more).
You expressed this as if there's actual correlation or causation between the two when it's highly unlikely any exists. He's doing exactly what many many others do: express concern about a problem encountered during recent use of some aspect of the D ecosystem.
It's an unfortunate but true aspect of the rate of D development combined with the relative small community: old pull's get lost in the noise. For pulls to get attention, the author or proponents of a pull need to keep it alive. The rate of application of pulls (regardless of age) isn't bad, but when combined with the influx rate of new pull requests it's just not high enough to get the backlog gone.
