D is crap

Seb via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 5 15:38:29 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 21:44:17 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 20:27:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 4. people wanting high performance are going to be using 64 
>> bits anyway
>
> so i'm not in a set of "people". ok.

It might be a good time to think about your hardware. Btw there 
is a recent announcement that Ubuntu and others will drop 32-bit 
support quite soon.
http://slashdot.org/story/313313

Here is a copy - the same arguments apply also for performance 
features.

> Major Linux distributions are in agreement: it's time to stop 
> developing new versions for 32-bit processors. Simply: it's a 
> waste of time, both to create the 32-bit port, and to keep 
> 32-bit hardware around to test it on. At the end of June, 
> Ubuntu developer Dimitri Ledkov chipped into the debate with 
> this mailing list post, saying bluntly that 32-bit ports are a 
> waste of resources. "Building i386 images is not 'for free', it 
> comes at the cost of utilising our build farm, QA and 
> validation time. Whilst we have scalable build-farms, i386 
> still requires all packages, autopackage tests, and ISOs to be 
> revalidated across our infrastructure." His proposal is that 
> Ubuntu version 18.10 would be 64-bit-only, and if users 
> desperately need to run 32-bit legacy applications, the'll have 
> to do so in containers or virtual machines. [...] In a forum 
> thread, the OpenSUSE Chairman account says 32-bit support 
> "doubles our testing burden (actually, more so, do you know how 
> hard it is to find 32-bit hardware these days?). It also 
> doubles our build load on OBS".


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