Blog Post: Beating std::visit Without Really Trying

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On Sunday, 6 October 2019 at 19:58:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/6/2019 2:59 AM, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> Well, so there's hope that _very little_ improvements will be 
>> merged, in a way or another? I mean, there's some sort of 
>> policy for things like that:
>> 
>>     https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6730
>> 
>> Frankly speaking, the actual situation it's a little 
>> discouraging...
>
> We want a much higher bar for merging things than historically. 
> A smaller, higher quality library is preferable to a kitchen 
> sink library.

There is someone actively adding auto-merge labels to pull 
requests even when the pull request author specifically says the 
PR is not ready. So the bar has actually been lowered in recent 
times..

I'm not going to name names because it would be inappropriate, 
but people are beginning to notice.