D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 20:51:17 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> Unfortunately, you're right. The title will leave the 
> impression "D is slow at compiling". You have to carefully read 
> the article to see otherwise, and few will do that.

Well comparative to itself sometimes it is. When you initially 
write D code you get used to the blazing fast speeds, but when 
eventually the compilation speed slows down as a project grows 
then this has a real effect on productivity.

Maybe a better title would have been "D compilation sometimes 
slows down too much", but it wouldn't get as many hits. On the 
upside, people who read the article - or even just read the 
comments section, will quickly realize that D's compilation speed 
is still miles faster than the competition. They might actually 
try the language. :)