State of the Compiler

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 21:01:13 UTC, Mathias Lang wrote:
>>Most _serious_ developers go for mature frameworks and
>> libraries for major projects.
>>
> https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman

Here I thought I stated one of the most obvious empirical fact, 
but in the D community there is no shortage of butt-hurt 
defensiveness which means that the even the most obvious facts 
have to be contradicted. That's the kind of attitude which will 
make professional look elsewhere.

> IMO this discussion belongs to dmd-internal.

This is a general end-user forum, are you saying that people 
should not be allowed to discuss things openly and freely when 
the lead developer brings the topic to the table?

Nobody has said that this discussions cannot be discussed 
elsewhere. I would expect that there has been internal 
discussions on this topic before it was published here in the 
_General_ forum.

> And there are a lot of low hanging fruits to harvest before 
> Phobos, some of them don't even require compiler knowledge.

Focusing on "Low hanging fruits" has been costly for this project.

Walter is getting it exactly right on the 
encapsulation/refactoring issue. This is currently discouraging 
people from digging into the compiler internals. Combine 
refactoring with documentation and you get more people working on 
the compiler.

Making it more _fun_ and easier for new people to jump into the 
code base would b a very important strategy. Making the codebase 
more idiomatic would be an important step.