D2 is really that stable as it is claimed to be?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Sep 21 15:36:43 PDT 2013


On 9/21/2013 3:11 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 22:06:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 9/21/2013 2:40 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
>>> Thanks, that is clear. Unfortunately, I cannot say that the explanation improves
>>> my attidute to the language - dmd still breaks too often code and some
>>> significant features (like AAs, scope, shared) are at risk to be seriously
>>> changed which is a serious problem to the user.
>>
>> I'm curious - was there a logic bug in your code with the overflow, or had
>> that been the intended behavior?
>
> This was bug in gtkd sources when I tried to compile its most recent version
> (tried even from github) with git-head dmd. I think it is a problem of gtkd
> developers rather than dmd.

Ok, so it found a latent bug in the source code - I don't think that's a good 
example of dmd being unstable - it was a good change.


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