About Andrei's interview, part 3

Don nospam at nospam.com
Wed Aug 25 23:57:29 PDT 2010


Walter Bright wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> This is why I don't like a lot the current work done for the 64 bit
>> implementation.
> 
> A lot of groups cannot consider D unless it supports 64 bit compilation.
> 
> 
>> D2 has some design problems (I don't call them 'enhancement
>> requests') that if you want to fix may require to break backward
>> compatibility (they are things that can't just be added to the D2 
>> language),
>> few months ago I have listed about ten of them here (and I think 
>> Walter did
>> just ignore them),
> 
> 71 bugzilla issues were resolved just in the last update. I don't think 
> it's quite fair to characterize the ongoing development as ignoring the 
> community. You list several things *per day*. I doubt any organization 
> could keep up with the sheer volume of your output <g>. I'm not 
> suggesting that you stop doing it, quite the contrary. I just hope you 
> can be realistic about how much can be done about them in the short term.

Since February, 30% of bugzilla entries are from bearophile!
It's really impressive.


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