Status of multidimensional slicing

[Brad Roberts]

On 3/7/2014 2:30 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I'm a bit sad that Walter is pushing for a large breaking change to D
> string handling, while Kenji's pull, which is a non-breaking enhancement
> that would lead to much better D support for many numerical computation
> applications, has been stagnating for at least a year (probably more).

You expressed this as if there's actual correlation or causation between 
the two when it's highly unlikely any exists.  He's doing exactly what 
many many others do: express concern about a problem encountered during 
recent use of some aspect of the D ecosystem.

It's an unfortunate but true aspect of the rate of D development 
combined with the relative small community: old pull's get lost in the 
noise.  For pulls to get attention, the author or proponents of a pull 
need to keep it alive.  The rate of application of pulls (regardless of 
age) isn't bad, but when combined with the influx rate of new pull 
requests it's just not high enough to get the backlog gone.