Compiler scalability. Question inspired by OOM errors seen by Crystal language

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 16:34:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> The CTFE problem will be fixed soon, once Stefan Koch finishes 
> his newCTFE engine.
>
> Templates are still an area where a lot of improvement can be 
> made. But Stefan has indicated interest in visiting this area 
> in the compiler after the newCTFE project is done.  So 
> eventually we'll get there.
>
>
> T

Yes that is true.
However since I've just taken a full-time job I cannot say when 
it will be finished.

As for templates I have chosen to work around the issue entirely 
and integrate type-manipulation and introspection abilities with 
ctfe. (Which is inherently more scalable then templates)