CTFE ^^ (pow)

[rikki cattermole]

On 19/03/2018 4:43 PM, Norm wrote:
> On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 03:14:51 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>>
>> Did they at any point tell us that it was a blocker for your company 
>> who was trialing D?
>>
>> Because I do not remember once in that time period of any one saying 
>> this.
>>
>> Walter has gone out of his way in the past to help companies, even 
>> flying to them on his own dime.
>>
>> If you want to be treated special, we need to have a reason for you to 
>> be treated special, otherwise you're just like everybody else 
>> complaining without giving back.
> 
> We don't want to be treated special. We don't want to give back. This is 
> the *entire* point.
> 
> D claims to be "Industry Proven and Ready" but we have to submit PRs or 
> get special treatment from Walter to use it effectively? Sorry, but this 
> is why many feel that D is still just a hobby project.
> 
> We are an organisation trying to get work done. D was a potential 
> replacement of our existing C++/Python tool chain. Unfortunately it 
> *requires* us to give back, which as I stated is not our business. Our 
> business is the development of medical devices and supporting 
> application software, not compiler or language development.

You just said the magic word, medical.

D was never an appropriate fit here.

dmd's backend has been for thirty years (or so) been up to recently 
licensed so that you may not use it for this purpose. Nothing has 
changed here.