Some Observations on the D Development Process

[Chris]

On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 03:28:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

> There's a lot of technical debt I've been trying to fix with 
> that, and nobody else seems willing to do it. For example, 
> fixing the error messages so they make use of color syntax 
> highlighting. It's boring, tedious, unfun work, meaning I get 
> to do it :-)
>
> Another issue is I've had the flu for a while which makes me 
> tired, and then it's best to work on things that don't require 
> much mental energy.
>
> (Yes, I got the flu shot, and the durned thing did not work.)

Afaik, the flu shot only covers those viruses that are arlready 
known to scientists (which only makes sense). Since the darn 
things keep mutating all the time, we have to deal with new 
strains every year. So one could argue that the flu shots are 
only of limited usefulness. Maybe a new strain attacked you, and 
maybe, consciously or subconsciously, people who got the shot 
behave more carelessly, (wrongly) assuming that they are immune 
to the flu.