std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-27 21:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 4/27/11 1:13 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> What also matters is that stuff that stays is stuff that gets done. You
>>> seem to have a good amount of expertise, but at the same time choose to
>>> firmly plant your figurative self in the proverbial armchair. If you
>>> know how to do it, do it, don't attempt to beat others into doing it.
>>
>> I think it a bit overly-aggressive to use phrases such as "choose to
>> firmly plant your figurative self in the proverbial armchair" and "beat
>> others into doing it".
>>
>> For people who have full-time jobs and therefore secure income who use
>> some of their work time or spare time to work on projects such as D,
>> there is the safety of having secure income. For those of us who have
>> no full-time job it is a matter of all time spent on things like D is
>> time not spent earning money. Firing off some emails is quick and apart
>> from a few rants, I think most of my emails are constructive. It is
>> therefore a serious barrier to be told I am a back seat driver and to
>> "do something" don't "say something".
>>
>> With people such as Spacen Jasset tentatively volunteering to contribute
>> to some work due to this exchange, to start getting censorious of my
>> efforts to contribute and create an atmosphere of doing something seems
>> somewhat counter-productive, certainly not community building.
>
> I agree. If posting to the newsgroup is significantly faster for you
> than actually spinning some code, then by all means please do post. I
> find that posting takes me significant amounts of time.

You can't mean that it takes you significantly more time to write the 
above post of two lines than implementing a build tool.

> Thanks,
>
> Andrei
>


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/Jacob Carlborg