Why do you continue to use D?

[Walter Bright]

On 6/5/2020 5:08 PM, Manu wrote:
> but there's open issues relating to initialisation from that change,

I know about that one, but it doesn't seem a showstopper.

> there's important opportunities with `shared` in conjunction with `scope` (which 
> is what I was arguing for when I was making the case for `scope` as it is today 
> way back in dconf2013, if you can recall those long arguments),

Yes.


> and we had a big 
> discussion about how to implement parallel-for (and associated machinery) which 
> you rejected because you found it unacceptable that a library may have to insert 
> fences at the appropriate places rather than the compiler doing it automatically 
> (redundantly) everywhere the pattern emerged.

I don't recall that one.


> Timon said he thought he knew how 
> to work the proposal into a form you'd find agreeable, but he hasn't replied to 
> me on that recently.
> This was all discussed at length over many months. It kinda just stalled when I 
> fatigued. If we're ready to pick up the ball, that would be really valuable work.

I'm not ready today, but it'd be nice if you made a text file of the status of 
all your initiatives with links to the discussions, so you won't have to keep 
retyping them.