An extolment for Walter

[Markus Koskimies]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:48:46 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> Markus Koskimies wrote:
>> Personally, I like D. Otherwise I would not be posting here.
>> Professionally, I can only suggest D for freetime activities. It is not
>> about the superiority of the language spec; it is about having a stable
>> environment to build things.
> 
> I don't know really what you're asking for. Is it to have a D compiler
> that anyone can modify and try new things out, or is it a stable
> compiler that only gets bug fixes?

Not a compiler, that anyone can modify :D With stable I mean other things 
than releases containing only bugfixes; like I posted before, I have had 
big difficulties to get my earlier D programs being compiled in my one-
week-old 64-bit Linux machine.

The stability I mean is probably not the issue in the next few years. If 
I can hope something, I would like to see DMD, GDC, Phobos and Tango to 
get closer each other. They are not competitors to each other; the 
success of D is up to the number of users it has.