Daily downloads in decline

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 6 June 2015 at 03:41:13 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 20:23:17 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:14:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>> As much as I want it, ddmd seems to not be happening for 
>>> 2.068 because of, simply put, insufficient resources.
>>
>> Why is that?
>>
>> A first test release does not seem to be further away than, 
>> say, full rangeification of Phobos.
>
> Answered earlier in the thread:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mkibq1$aj9$1@digitalmars.com

That's not a full answer. I worked with Daniel to get LDC to 
successfully compile DDMD the Saturday after DConf, which is part 
of the reason why we can confidently make the 20% claim in the 
first place (i.e., be sure that is not a C++ vs D issue).

Still, I'm confident that getting a LDC release ready would be 
less work than, say, properly refactoring all of Phobos to avoid 
allocations by using ranges.

Sorry if I appear a bit grumpy, but even though recently a number 
of people have been clamoring for more focus on high-impact, 
strategically important work, not a single one of them has showed 
up at the doorsteps of GDC/LDC with any patches so far. This 
strikes me as rather schizophrenic and dishonest, especially 
given that the same people are quick to mention the importance of 
those compilers in other contexts. Either that, or they seem to 
maintain the conception that DMD is somehow a viable option for 
performance-critical code. In the latter case, I don't have much 
hope for D in the long term, given that this would imply that 
decisions are made involving an alarming level of delusional 
double-think.

  - David