DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Iain Buclaw]

On 27 June 2013 14:17, Joakim <joakim at airpost.net> wrote:
> As I said earlier, I'm done with this debate.
>
> There is no point talking to people who make blatantly ignorant statements
> like, "Binary blobs are the exception rather than the rule in Linux, and
> many hardware vendors would flat out say 'no' to doing any support on them."
> This assertion is so ignorant of the facts, it's laughable. :)

Fact: That quote you find laughable isn't my opinion.  It was what
Linus said during a Q&A after one of his talks (at least, if I
remember it correctly ;).


> I have no idea what to make of Iain's talking about gdc or that it is a "one-man team"
> in response to my prediction that ldc could go closed/paid and obsolete dmd:
> there is absolutely no connection between the topics.
>

I suppose that was my ignorance there, I assumed that you at least
*knew* a little bit of history behind the development of D1/D2.  I'm
sure people would raise their eyebrows and sigh to have the age old
question "why don't we just drop development of DMD and move it to X?"
asked again.  :o)


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Iain Buclaw

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