On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> wrote: > Anyway, it still comes down to figuring out how to find the resources. > Not clear that there is commercial interest in rapid implementation > of c++11, we certainly have not heard of any such interest, and in the > absence of such commercial interest, we do indeed come down to hoping > to find the volunteer help that is needed. >
This is a hard task. A volunteer has to be both willing (easy) and able (very hard). A lot of people that work on GCC have worked on it for a gazillion years. How much code contribution in 2012 came from people who did not work on it prior? Perhaps it'd be worthwhile to consider making the compiler easier to understand, maybe by devoting a lot of effort into the internals documentation. There's a lot of knowledge wrapped up in people that could disappear with one bus factor.
