Beta 2.098.0

[Timon Gehr]

On 11.10.21 03:08, 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?

I think @live is a dead end and any further work on it is probably 
wasted unless the code is reusable for some other feature. Ownership is 
a property of values, not of functions operating on those values. In 
particular, prioritizing ImportC over @live is the right call. ImportC 
is high-impact and Walter has a lot of relevant expertise.