Daily downloads in decline

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 19:29:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/1/15 11:58 AM, Joakim wrote:
>> What is the plan to
>> put out the better videos recorded by the organizers: put them 
>> all out
>> as soon as they're available or stagger their release?
>
> All at once.
>
>> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:14:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>> 4. We need to marshal our efforts behind 2.068, and clarify 
>>> the big
>>> ticket items accomplished. I'm thinking rangification of 
>>> Phobos - GC
>>> no longer needed for most primitives, and documented where 
>>> needed. As
>>> much as I want it, ddmd seems to not be happening for 2.068 
>>> because
>>> of, simply put, insufficient resources.
>>
>> Can you expand on why ddmd is getting delayed?  I, and 
>> seemingly many
>> others, were looking forward to ddmd.  I did not see Daniel's 
>> talk as it
>> wasn't livestreamed.  Perhaps we can help get ddmd out the 
>> door.
>
> We need either gdc 2.067 or ldc 2.067 released in order to 
> build ddmd with them. Otherwise we're suffering a 20% perf loss.
>
>
> Andrei

at the risk of sounding like a broken record, if ldc/gdc not 
being 2.067 stops a DDMD release due to dmd's generated code 
being too slow, maybe it's time to phase dmd out ;)