Mid-term vision review

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 5 April 2015 at 05:04:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 04:31:06PM -0700, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 4/4/2015 1:48 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> >Besides, even if you could, you're just one person, whereas 
>> >gdc/ldc
>> >have a much larger number of contributors, some of whose 
>> >specialty is
>> >optimization.  Do you realistically think you can 
>> >singlehandedly
>> >outdo all of them?
>> 
>> I did for decades, until the early 2000's or so when I began 
>> spending
>> all my time on the front end.
> [...]
>
> Well, yes, that's because we need you more on DMDFE than on the 
> backend,
> and that's why there will probably never be enough time for you 
> to do
> everything you need to do with the backend. And that's why the 
> backend
> will probably never be as good as gdc/ldc.
>
>
> T

You can't reason people out of what the haven't been reasoned 
into.