Back in D after some absence, some perspective

[Max Haughton]

On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 06:53:37 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> 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.

Is that realistic for dmd?