On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 12:03:48 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:
familiar with implementation details and even don't seem to have any experience in writting large programs in D, because
Of course I don't. My goal for D is that it becomes a solid base language which it makes sense to build upon. My D programming is currently only language related experiments on a rather low level (syntax and basic functionality), I have used D for other things in the past, but currently it does not stack up against Python or C++ for production in my case.
It would be nice if it did, of course.
Otherwise no one will find practical real-world benefits from your theoretical ideas and we would just waste time arguing with each other, while something practical could be accomplished in the same time.
The foundation has to be solid. Clang went against common wisdom when compiling directly to a low level IR without. Common wisdom is to compile to a high level IR first. In the case of C++ it has worked out ok for clang. That does not mean that there are no benefits to using a high level IR. GCC has a higher level IR at the top level, and I suspect they have benefitted from that on some optimizations.
would bring objective benefits. Otherwise you sound like someone telling a car manufacturer that they should be focusing on flying cars or teleportation, because clearly that's the future :D
No, it is more like discussing the chassis rather than the polish. Car manufacturers can design many models over the same chassis, if they put extra effort into it.
