On Sunday, 30 August 2015 at 02:16:13 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 30 August 2015 at 01:48:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad
wrote:
When people work on FOUR compilers then you cannot complain
about lack of resources. You then need to see if you can do
something to unite efforts.
They aren't really four compilers. It is more like 2.1. sdc is
a separate project, but dmd, ldc, and gdc share like 90% of the
effort, so it is more realistic to call them 1.1 compilers
rather than 3...
And it's not like Walter could order the vast and well
compensated GDC team to stop and go and work on DMD, even if that
made sense.
To make the observation that someone unhappy with a state of
affairs has the option to contribute the time to help move the
world in the direction they think good is not quite the same
thing as complaining about a lack of resources. Morale is
important in long term projects that don't pay off very quickly,
and constant nagging and grumbling doesn't tend to help, even in
the case when it is entirely well founded.
