On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 19:45:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 5/4/15 12:31 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Fast parsing is definitely a killer feature of
D and the fact that std.xml botches that so badly is just
embarrassing.
To be frank what's more embarrassing is that we managed to do
nothing about it for years (aside from endlessly wailing about
it in an a capella ensemble). It's a failure of leadership
(that Walter and I need to work on) that very many unimportant
and arguably less interesting areas of Phobos get attention at
the expense of this one. -- Andrei
Also true. Many of us just don't find enough time to work on D,
and we don't seem to do a good job of encouraging larger
contributions to Phobos, so newcomers don't tend to contribute
like that. And there's so much to do all around that the big
stuff just falls by the wayside, and it really shouldn't.
- Jonathan M Davis
