This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 26 August 2015 at 00:55, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 21:43:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>
> The work done on GDC is well appreciated, GDC's codebase is much cleaner
>>> now than it was before the refactoring.
>>>
>>>
>> True, and it will only get more cleaner as each section is rewritten.
>> But no one personally congratulates you on refactoring code (I have been
>> spearheading a push to remove all dmd-backend-isms from gdc.  It took about
>> 3 months work to make expression (toElem) codegen to be stateless, and
>> remove the dmd-specific 'backend IR state' (IRState) struct from the
>> codebase.  And that is barely 1/8 of what needs to be done to prepare the
>> move to 2.067)
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/CurrentReleaseTasks
>>
>
> How can we make it easier for people to show their appreciation?  I
> appreciate very much your work on GDC, and I know that there is a general
> problem that people tend to focus on what's visible and not necessarily
> what's hidden but important.
>
>
Maybe by coming to Berlin next year? :-)

Actually, perhaps this might be something worth discussing in the D
foundation thread?

Iain
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