Mid-term vision review

weaselcat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 3 16:59:49 PDT 2015


On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 23:47:48 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> 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.

Maybe I'm misreading, but I don't see how documentation is NIH 
syndrome.


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