dmd 2.068, 2.069, 2.0xx Evil Plan going forward

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/20/2015 1:52 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> Also seems like the compiler as a library is not too far away, is that going to
> be apart of the plan eventually?

Yes.


>> 2. Go to full lazy semantic analysis of imports, rather than the current
>> "analyze them all"
> What effects will this have? Faster compile times? Smaller binaires?

Yes.


>> 3. Rethink what "speculative instantiation" of templates means so we can have
>> a coherent process of compiling them.
> Sounds complicated... what effects will this have? Simpler internals? What
> effects for end user?

Mainly fewer compiler bugs.


> This all seems very not evil.

Not evil enough? I have failed!


> One question I have, are there any plans for a language clean up of sorts, there
> are a bunch of little features and some big that don't really make sense
> anymore. D is starting to feel like it's going down the road of c++ with lots of
> baggage and unwillingness to get rid of old features even if they are
> discouraged from use, all for the sake of backwards compatibility. I know D has
> been getting progressively more reserved about breaking changes, do you see that
> changing any time in the future? 1 year? 3 years? Would automatic conversion
> tools make you more willing to break things?

I think we're kinda stuck there.