std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-28 17:37, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

You kind of gave that impression.

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/Jacob Carlborg