Andrei's Google Talk

[Walter Bright]

Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 08/04/2010 09:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> Walter is more silent than usual because he's working very hard on the
>> 64-bit compiler. He hopes to have one by the end of this month. His next
>> big goal is shared library support.
> 
> While those are both important, isn't it even more important to have the 
> existing 32-bit implementation complete? How can you showcase a language 
> that's incomplete and buggy? Can't both those features wait until after 
> D2 is considered polished enough to be released?
> 
> I keep seeing reports from people running into bugs, unfinished 
> features, and incomplete documentation. There's no end in sight, either, 
> yet a book has been released and the language is promoted as if it were 
> a finished product.

I've been deferring adding 64 bit support for years. Not having it is the 
biggest barrier to the adoption of D there is right now.