std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/28/11 3:24 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 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.

Of course I can't. I didn't either...

Andrei