Back in D after some absence, some perspective

[Stefan Koch]

On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 02:46:26 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>
> I also think it is quite safe to assume that DMD will never 
> implement any consistent semantics for the interaction of 
> forward references and introspection (because it will never be 
> the top-priority issue), but I don't want to give up on forward 
> references nor introspection.

I hope that we can fix that.
Any serious advance of meta-programming in D is basically not 
possible without having this issue fixed.
And I think that, slowly transitioning the compiler to an 
asynchronous task based system
(get resolution and semantic analysis to be based on co-routines);
can get us there.