Focus (was Re: draft proposal for Sum Types for D)

[Bruce Carneal]

On Saturday, 3 December 2022 at 16:17:19 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 November 2022 at 06:26:20 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> Go ahead, Make My Day! Destroy!
>>
>> https://github.com/WalterBright/DIPs/blob/sumtypes/DIPs/1NNN-(wgb).md
>
> I don’t want to be discouraging of good work, but D is not 
> lacking in great features, it is lacking in its implementation 
> of the basics.
>
> I have come to believe over several years working in D, 
> managing work in D at some scale (10s of devs, not 100s) & 
> advocating for D that the foundations are shaky and crumbly and 
> need work.
>
> ... *many* well reasoned points supporting the above ...

Well put.

>
> [1] please no “where’s the bug report”, it’s whackamole. There 
> needs to be a reckoning with the fundamental nature of the 
> problem. Does *anyone* even understand the current design & 
> implementation?
>

The benefits of an alternate front end development effort have 
never been clearer.