The forked elephant in the room

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 20:18:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/16/2024 6:38 AM, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> I'm referring to delegation for _judgements_ on specific 
>> aspect of D ecosystem: we are seeing it right now, an 
>> incredible amount of effort spent by a lot of people to 
>> "justify" why CT string interpolation is not a 'nice-to-have'.
>
> Both proposals can do CT string interpolation.
>
> There are misunderstandings about both proposals.
>
> I suspect if we all sat down in a room together, we'd have it 
> resolved within an hour.

Yeah, I know, I manage people since I was 25 and I'm 54 now: I've 
learned that nothing settles down misunderstandings better than 
having a beer.

>> The net gain for _everybody_ , Walter included, would have 
>> been to simply delegate that specific judgement to Timon
>
> I've never caught Timon in a technical error, he's a genius as 
> far as I can tell! But we disagree now and then on the value of 
> various inevitable tradeoffs. This stems from our different 
> backgrounds.

Different backgrounds are valuables, especially since also you 
are genius in engineering, hey, a C++ compiler written by a solo 
man!