Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 04:48:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/13/2019 2:35 PM, Mike Franklin wrote:
>> Lately, I find the things that Walter is doing in DMD to be a 
>> very low priority compared to all of the bugs in bugzilla for 
>> which only he is qualified to fix.  I wish he'd stop 
>> refactoring code and start fixing bugs, but, maybe his 
>> refactorings of late are laying some groundwork for more 
>> important stuff.
>
> I gave a list a couple times on technical debt in DMD, and 
> nobody picked up the flag. So I've been doing it.

Uh, yes we have, and you response was not far from get stuffed 
(maybe that was Andrei's, don't remember).

> If this is let go for too long, the code becomes unmaintainable.

You don't say.