This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 21:14:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 25 August 2015 at 22:42, NVolcz via Digitalmars-d-announce < 
> digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>>[...]
> I don't think this would work as well with the less active 
> compilers. Partly because (gdc) only really goes through a 
> major overhaul/change once every six months, depending on how 
> long the next release of DMD has been in development.  Also the 
> whole process is less driven by dealing with bug reports and 
> more driven by feature/optimization topics that I'm sure would 
> fly over most people's heads.
>
> [...]

The work done on GDC is well appreciated, GDC's codebase is much 
cleaner now than it was before the refactoring.