Biggest Issue with D - Definition and Versioning

[Gour]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:31:14 -0600
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> In the latter case:
> 
> 1. SIMD is not the top of the list. Two weeks ago it wasn't _on_ the 
> list. Now it's like the last 'copter outta Saigon.
> 
> 2. We haven't identified game designers as a core market, and one
> that's more important than e.g. general purpose programmers who need
> the like of working qualifiers, multithreading, and shared libraries.
> 
> 3. There was never a promise or even a mention that we'll deliver
> SIMD. We virtually promise we deliver threads and expressive
> qualifiers, and there's still work to do on that.
> 
> 4. There was broad agreement that the main foci going forward would
> be quality, expressive qualifiers, shared libraries, Phobos work, and 
> publicizing the language. We can't work with and publicize D's
> awesome concurrency design if parts of it aren't implemented.
> 
> 5. The SIMD work has _zero_ acceleration on existing code; it only 
> allows experts to write non-portable code that uses SIMD
> instructions. Updating to the next release of dmd has zero
> SIMD-related benefit to statistically our entire user base.

Very nicely put together. Thank you for that.

> Walter and I spend hours on the phone discussing strategies and
> tactics to make D more successful. And then comes this binge. Doing
> anything on SIMD now is a mistake that I am sorry I was unable to
> stop. About the only thing that's good about it all is that it'll be
> over soon.

It looks as some of the GTD wisdom to choose the rigt NextActions would
be beneficial in D community. ;)


Sincerely,
Gour


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