D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Nov 22 04:56:56 UTC 2018


On 11/21/2018 8:48 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 20:51:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Unfortunately, you're right. The title will leave the impression "D is slow at 
>> compiling". You have to carefully read the article to see otherwise, and few 
>> will do that.
> 
> Sorry about that. I'll have to think of two titles next time, one for the D 
> community and one for everyone else.
> 
> If it's of any consolation, the top comments in both discussion threads point 
> out that the title is inaccurate on purpose.

It has indeed done well. In fact, the article is so good it is probably worth it 
to have that attention-getting title. It is a risky strategy, though :-)


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