Is D really that bad?

[Timon Gehr]

On 10/29/22 04:02, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/28/2022 3:20 AM, IGotD- wrote:
>> D is a good language but it has some obvious flaws that are easily 
>> recognizable and these can be fixed. The problem is the management and 
>> the total tone deafness/insight who refuse to recognize these often 
>> because of self manufactured dogmas. This is really frustrating as if 
>> the odds and ends could be fixed in the language it could bring it to 
>> a very competitive state. It's like falling over right before the 
>> finishing line. The only way out of this is if D is forked.
> 
> You can fork it if you like. Feel free!
> ...

It is pretty standard procedure for contributing to D to fork the 
official repositories.

DMD alone has been forked over 600 times on github. I guess coordinating 
DMD development is just not so easy and we don't really have people with 
the requisite skills and motivation.

> Meanwhile, last week I spent fixing some gaps in the XMM semantics 
> (relational operators are now supported).
> 
> Before that, I went through every DIP1000 bugzilla issue, and submitted 
> PRs for the problems.
> 
> Before that, I went through (again) the list of outstanding issues with 
> ImportC and fixed the top problems.

Thank you! I wish I had more spare time. (And push access to DMD master ;] )