Forums suffering Priority Inversion with Livelock

[Christopher Wright]

Daniel wrote:
> I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but I'm noticing a livelock priority inversion in the forums.  Everyone's spending months arguing about constness, when there are clear, simple, and higher priority issues to resolve.
> 
> 1) The x86-32 platform is obsolete, and D still can't run x86-64, and only supports SSE if you hand code it in assembler.  One step away from being targetted to 16-bit x286.  x86-64 has been out for a 5 years now.
> 
> 2) Compiling a program with extern (C) main(){ return 1; } still doesn't let you cut the excess 80kb of fat.  I don't care what's in there, it needs to be included "on use".
> 
> I can't use D at work, and don't use it at home, until these issues are resolved.

People are used to Java and .NET, with megabytes of overhead. Anyone 
considering D for x86 processors probably doesn't care about 80kb extra 
cruft. Or probably shouldn't.

If you're trying to use D on embedded devices, though, it's an issue. 
But these days, even embedded systems have 32MB of RAM.