Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

RenatoUtsch renatoutsch at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 16:02:44 PST 2012


On Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 23:47:56 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 1:44 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> You are engaging the whole community into something you 
>> dropped here by surprise
>> and then claiming that some people uses. We don't even know 
>> who they are ! How
>> can we support your point ?
>
> It's Remedy Games. It's a big deal for them, and their use of D 
> is a big deal for us, big enough that we can bend our procedure 
> for them. They were also under severe time pressure. They began 
> using UDAs the same day I implemented them. Remedy could very 
> well be the tipping point for D, and I'm not going to allow 
> them to fail.
>
> It's also not a conflict of interest - what they want from D is 
> really what we all want from it.
>
> I understand that some of you may be frustrated by my giving 
> their needs priority, but I hope that the end result will be 
> better for all of us than if I didn't, and that you'll indulge 
> me with this.

Maybe this is a special occasion.

To have such a big enterprise starting to use D, maybe there are 
more pros than cons.


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