Daily downloads in decline

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/9/2015 1:53 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> 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 is what we sign up for when working on open source software. I don't sit 
here only writing fun stuff, I work on the dirty work that nobody else wants to 
do, but is critical. I've been pushing for rangification of Phobos for probably 
2 years now, and essentially nothing happened. It has to be done, so I do it 
myself. It's just how it is when there isn't paid staff one can direct.


> 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.

We wouldn't have had a Win64 version of D without DMD.