OPTLINK needs to die.

[grauzone]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> This is, for me, the number one blocker of most of my more complex
> code on Windows.  More than any DMD bug.  Tom S can vouch for it too,
> and Eldar sounds like he s about to give up on D after dealing with
> OPTLINK's crashes.

He's not the only one. I hope Walter is aware how serious the problem 
is. Although D is a really nice language, it becomes unusable with its 
shitty toolchain support. Same with "popular" bugs like forward 
referencing / circular module bugs.

If I tell someone about D, I always add a warning about how shitty the 
toolchain is. Then I hope they won't just ditch D if they hit compiler 
and linker bugs...

Even on Linux, where the GNU linker is used, there are some problems 
with linking. Sometimes, the linker will complain about either multiply 
defined symbols or missing ones. Or the compiled program segfaults... 
then you completely recompile it, and it works.