Laser-D announcement
user1234
user1234 at 12.de
Wed Jul 29 22:05:03 UTC 2026
On Wednesday, 29 July 2026 at 19:52:17 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 July 2026 at 17:22:07 UTC, user1234 wrote:
>>
>> That looks like surface removal. For example with
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/5ede0e9cf8775f366b3662d71989eea50c818e74, which aimed at removing UDAs, you just change the parser. The matching ast node declaration still exists. The matching semantics as well. Once consequence is that coverage of the compiler sources will get lower.
>>
>> Sorry but to me that does not look like serious work.
>>
>
> Hello, this is deliberate to allow easy merge of upstream. If
> the front-end changes drastically then merging any upstream
> changes will be very difficult.
>
> So the strategy for now is to just disable features without
> changing AST and all.
OK so to summarize "create dead code on purpose". but thank for
your honnesty.
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