More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Arlen via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 22:56:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 10:48:47PM -0500, Caligo via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> Last but not least, currently there are two main ways for new 
>> features
>> to make it into D/Phobos: you either have to belong to the 
>> inner
>> circle, or have to represent some corporation that's doing 
>> something
>> with D.
>
> I'm sorry, but this is patently false. I am neither in the 
> inner circle,
> nor do I represent any corporation, yet I've had many changes 
> pulled
> into Phobos (including brand new code).
>
> I can't say I'm perfectly happy with the D development process 
> either,
> but this kind of accusation is bordering on slander, and isn't 
> helping
> anything.
>
>
> T

There is a lot of truth in what Caligo has said, but I would word
that part of it differently.

A couple years ago I submitted std.rational, but it didn't go
anywhere.  About a year later I discovered that someone else had
done a similar thing, but it never made it into Phobos either.
Of course, it's not because we didn't belong to some "inner
circle", but I think it has to do with the fact that D has a very
poor development process.  The point being, something as simple
as a Rational library shouldn't take years for it to become part
of Phobos, specially when people are taking the time to do the
work.

--Arlen