Proposal : aggregated dlang git repository

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 07:02 +0000, Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 06:22:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
> > Yet we do have matters that are important and urgent. We want to 
> > improve Phobos' take on memory allocation. Yet not one soul is 
> > working on RefCounted. Few know even what needs to be done of it.
> 
> I think you may have just answered your own question.
> 
> > Why? Why are so many of us dedicating so much energy to
> > tweaking what already works, instead of tackling real problems? 
> > Problems that e.g. - pardon my being pedantic - are in the
> > vision document?
> 
> I feel a bit of the myth of the interchangeable programmer
> creeping in here. Maybe the people who are working on websites 
> aren't memory management experts. Are our memory management
> experts working on websites? If a web designer was tasked with 
> improving RefCounted, what are the odds of their work getting
> through code review?

There is also the issue that very few, if any, people are paid to work 
on D implementation. Thus with only volunteer labour (you may think of 
that as labor if you really have to ;-) people will work on what they 
want to work on, and systemically, are more likely to work on the 
smaller things as they have clearly visible boundaries.

And then there is the trivial that also become the barrier. For 
example I find it very difficult to read Phobos style code, so I 
don't. Not that Phobos code style should change because I don't like 
it, but it shows that trivial barriers can stop contribution.

-- 
Russel.
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