Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Dec 23 21:46:30 UTC 2022


On 12/23/2022 12:58 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> The technical debt in DMD is how the code and AST is structured, not the 
> features it supports. This is much harder to clean up than removing isolated 
> features and I think you are among the people slowing down such efforts.

Please identify any refactorings you regard as productive.


> One reason why is that there are a lot of pull requests that would be broken by 
> large-scale refactorings. Those open pull requests are also technical debt.

Refactorings inherently break open pull requests.


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