Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Wed Jul 18 22:32:13 PDT 2012


On Thursday, July 19, 2012 00:20:51 Caligo wrote:
> Just curious, if Walter is too busy to make DMD more stable, then what
> does he spend most of his time on?  I thought we were done with adding
> new features to the language (at least for now)?

No one said anything about Walter not making dmd more stable. What he doesn't 
have time to spend on is managing a separate branch which includes only bug 
fixes. He spends lots of time on both bug fixing and new stuff, and his skills 
are valuable enough that his time is better spent on actually coding than 
dealing with branch management.

Currently, he's focusing on adding COFF support for Windows, which will make 
it possible to link using Microsoft's linker and generate 64-bit binaries. 
It's not a new feature in the sense that the language itself is gaining a 
feature, but it _is_ new functionality for the compiler.

- Jonathan M Davis


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