D is crap

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 06:38:18 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 06:27:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> Sounds like a good project. A non-optimizing backend that 
>> retains type information and asserts could be very useful. And 
>> keeping it simple is valuable, it makes it easier for others 
>> to understand the front-end/back-end connection.
>
> but... but it IS optimizing backend! once i have SSA, i can do 
> alot of optimizations on that -- i just didn't implemented 'em 
> all, but it doesn't matter. and any such optimizations are 
> completely independent of frontend code anyway.

Ohoh, sorry :-) But quite frankly, good SIMD support is more 
important to me than a good optimizer. So if you extend aliced 
with good SIMD support and do it well in the backend then it 
could take off, IMO.