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

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 08:21:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Also, upending the code base with large changes and 
> reorganizations is not likely to get incorporated, and be aware 
> that people can and do disagree strongly about what constitutes 
> improvement and what doesn't. When in doubt, do a small version 
> and see how it goes.

The DMD codebase suffers from systemic misorganisation, both on 
the massive function level, and the complete lack of organisation 
of the files in the source directory. Small change are never 
going to fix those issues.

You are trying to find a local optimum, we need to find a more 
global one, and that involves doing things like 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9511#discussion_r270614236