stability

[Bill Baxter]

Denton Cockburn wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:16:08 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Denton Cockburn wrote:
>>> [quoted text muted]
>> D 1.0 regularly gets bug fixes with the focus on improving its stability.
> 
> I understand that, but there are still many outstanding bugs in D 1.0.
> 2.0 now, which is in development, a lot of the changes affect things
> elsewhere.  Are you going to correct all of those side-effects before
> releasing 2.0? or are they going to be addressed during the development of
> 3.0?
> 
> I was reading a thread on reddit a few days ago about issues people have
> with their favourite language.  One of the issues with D was that people
> were still running into compiler errors and bugs in what is
> expected to be a systems programming language.
> 

Seems irrelevant to me what kind of language D is.  Bugs are bugs and 
nobody likes 'em.  And compiler bugs are especially annoying. 
Regardless of the language.  Doesn't matter if it's a "systems 
programming language" or a LOGO interpreter.

I think Walter is doing a pretty good job of fixing bugs with D1, but 
still there are a few instances where he has seemed a little too eager 
to classify a fix as an enhancement, apparently so as to avoid having to 
port it to D1.  It's a balancing act, though.  Time spent fixing D1 bugs 
is time taken away from making D2 ready for prime-time.

--bb