Beta 2.098.0

[max haughton]

On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 01:08:30 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 00:34:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Sunday, 10 October 2021 at 23:36:56 UTC, surlymoor wrote:
>>>
>>> Meanwhile @live is in the language, and it's half-baked. Then 
>>> there's preview switches that will linger on into perpetuity; 
>>> DIPs' implementations that haven't been finished.
>>
>> And Walter has prioritized this issue over those. No matter 
>> what he works on, people will moan that he isn’t working on 
>> something else. Maybe we should clone him.
>
> Perhaps worth asking why Walter, specifically, is required to 
> work on @live in order for it to make progress. Is it just 
> because no one else is willing to step up to the plate, or is 
> he the only person qualified/capable enough?

FWIW The code isn't great. Maybe I'll have another crack at it 
some day but it wasn't very well structured compared to similar 
efforts I have seen (e.g. 
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/03/26/static-analysis-in-gcc-10 's implementation)