Mid-term vision review

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 22:46:31 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 20:56:09 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 19:45:29 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>>> The reliance on GDC/LDC to produce production-level 
>>> binaries(i.e, optimized) and the actual people working on 
>>> them really is worrisome. If Iain or Kai decided one day to 
>>> leave D, it would be a very big blow I think.
>>
>> Yes. And considering there is no hope that we bring dmd's 
>> backend up to speed with GCC or LLVM (let's be realistic one 
>> second) what is even more worrisome is how little they are 
>> integrated in the workflow.
>
> The best way to help would probably be to work on contributor 
> guides/documentation. They don't seem to have much of either of 
> these - or I'm blind(good possibility.)
>

Even if so what is the point ? That is completely wasted work. It 
is already done elsewhere.

That is aggravated pathological NIH syndrome right there.