D is crap

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 22:38:29 UTC, Seb wrote:
> 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".

I bet it's not a hardware thing but rather an OS thing. People on 
windows mostly use DMD 32 bit because the 64 bit version requires 
MS VS environment.

Are you windows Ketmar ?