The proper case for D.
Steve Teale
steve.teale at britseyeview.com
Sun Jun 21 10:05:08 PDT 2009
> >> What's up with all the negativity lately? Impatience?
> >
> > Some people think D2 tries too much, and neglects the really important
> > things at the same time. For example, D2 tries to solve the concurrency
> > issue (which is a hot topic which makes D look good at sites like
> > stackoverflow), while still relying on a 20 years old linker written in
> > assembler.
>
> So the better direction according to some is to stagnate language design for
> D2 so Walter Bright can reinvent the linker? So that years later when asked
> why D didn't do more for concurrency when it was needed, you'd have to
> reply: "well there wasn't any time to deal with such trivial issues, the
> language designer had to work on the toolchain."
>
You are of course completely correct in this, but the question is,
can you do a new linker? I can't. There must be someone out there who can - please, please.
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