How much time you spend daily?

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 1 11:56:48 PST 2011


== Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a at a.a)'s article
> "Gary Whatmore" <no at spam.sp> wrote in message
> news:ii970e$1nis$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > Recently Bruno M. wrote:
> >
> >> I may be spending too much time on the NG (especially for someone who
> >> doesn't skip the 8 hours of sleep)
> >
> > A quick look at my daily routines revealed that I spend 7 hours studying
> > the dmd and phobos diffs, Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch linux packages status,
> > bug reports and comments, planet d, running bearophile's benchmarks,
> > dsource & project news, all reddit articles about D, all slides and posts
> > by Walter in various forums.
> >
> > This is all too exciting. If I didn't go to work, there would be even more
> > to learn. The downside is, this leaves no time to really contribute.
> > Problem #2 is I'm not very good at coming up with ideas on how to improve
> > D or the tools. I just spend all time reading, spreading the word, and
> > manipulating reddit votes. I hope I could help D and use D some day. Any
> > thoughts?
> DDMD could use more activity:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd
> LLVM needs exception support on Windows.
> I *think* LDC and GDC need more work on their D2 versions.

The Druntime and Phobos teams have already done 70% of the work.

AFAIK, missing D2 features are:
- TLS symbols: Need to be more than just stub variables, but still just about
usable as they are.
- DbC: In/Out Contract Inheritance not implemented.

Rest is either ironing out the corner cases of codegen, or working on some fancy
GCC addition.


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