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

[Tourist]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 08:33:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> 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

Long functions and files not "well" organized are the typical 
issues noticed by an incompetent maintainer.