Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

Maxim Fomin maxim at maxim-fomin.ru
Thu Feb 7 13:01:10 PST 2013


On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge 
> opportunity for us.

This is nice.

> To get the design win, we need to:
>
> (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work

Wasn't this realized before? By the way, last weeks there seems 
to be increasing dynamic linking & loading buzz like it was not 
an issue for ages.

> (b) improve language safety without degrading efficiency

This is vague. Language safety (meaning design improvement) or 
implementation (fixing bugs)? How you can measure such 
improvement?

> (c) improve quality as always

This is also vague. Quality of what: dmd/druntime/phobos?

> Of course, these things benefit pretty much all D users anyway. 
> Initially, (a) is the most important.

I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time.


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