is(Mutex == shared) == false?

[Stanislav Blinov]

On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 02:22:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> Feel free to paste these in a wiki page. Experience suggests 
> that me telling people what I think is important and must be 
> done has very limited impact.

I'd hazard a guess that this is in part because whatever 
consensus reached at any given point doesn't always find its way 
to publicity and only stays in mind of people involved in the 
discussion and buried in NG postings. Wiki at least can help in 
that regard.

> I've made no secret about what I think are important topics for 
> D at any time, and often each had one or a few people who'd be 
> obviously best positioned to work on. Yet each person continued 
> to work on whatever itch they wanted scratched, which is 
> entirely understandable.

Not everyone is fond of taking initiative, that's a known fact. 
Me, I'm tired of seeing new big features and ideas popping up 
when there's so much unfinished business in the language, runtime 
and Phobos. When I left this NG (two years ago?) 'shared' was an 
infant, today it's just a tad more than that. Without clearly 
defined (and supported by the runtime) 'shared' I can't see how 
allocators can be finalized, which in turn also influences that 
GC/ARC/whatever shennanigans... So I'm willing to help make it 
better to the extent of my mental capacity. But again, this 
thread will soon be buried deep, a more concrete and focused 
discussion begs for another type of media.