On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 22:30:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei is in charge of the library and has my full support.
We've talked many times about raising the bar much higher on
Phobos. It's a tough competitive environment for programming
languages out there, and we should all expect the review
process going forward for Phobos to be brutal.
On the other hand, getting an endorsement from Andrei for a
design is something anyone should be proud of, and I suspect
will be worth the blood, sweat and tears.
I know my own code has gotten a lot better from Andrei's
professional criticism.
There are many ways to go about "raising the bar"; making Andrei
the sole arbiter of a design's quality will not necessarily
accomplish this, but will make the need for constant
communication with him a major bottleneck for development,
regardless. It also risks making him into a single point of
failure.
I do not think this approach will scale in the long run, no
matter who is given that role. Of course, I would be happy to be
proven wrong.
