Paradox about D's popularity.

[deadalnix]

Le 22/09/2011 12:31, Jonathan M Davis a écrit :
> On Thursday, September 22, 2011 11:15:23 Regan Heath wrote:
>> as results speak louder than proposals I have found.
>
> It's often easy to come up with ideas. The hard part is implementing them, and
> in many cases, they need to be implemented to be shown that they're viable and
> to iron them out.

True, but the fact is that compiler technologies are very specifics. 
Even for people really exprienced in devellopement in general, and thus 
knowing what work/doesn't work in several languages, or what is needed 
to spread D over the IT place, only a reduced portion of them is able to 
implement something in a compiler frontend.

Even if you know compilation algorithm and related stuff (that's my 
case) you have a tons of details that ends up not being details after 
all, that you learn by practice.

And even if you are, then you have to be confident with DMD front end 
source code. This is a quite complicated requirement.

Maybe advice could be given about where to start (which algorithm, which 
file(s) in the front end) should be given with comments about 
implementation.