The proper case for D.

"Jérôme M. Berger" jeberger at free.fr
Sun Jun 21 12:45:16 PDT 2009


Steve Teale wrote:
>>>> 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.
> 
> 
http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ ?

		Jerome
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