Handling constructive criticism

[Hans W. Uhlig]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
> news:fu5u61$1m4u$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>>> I surrendered long ago. I can't even be bothered reading those post you
>>> talk of now. Nothing will come of them. Walter won't change. D will 
>>> fester
>>> on for a while but all the good things that it could have been will not 
>>> see
>>> light of day. D is already lot better than the alternatives and that 
>>> seems
>>> to be good enough for Walter. Mediocracy rules. There is no desire to aim
>>> higher.
>> The current problem seems to be the opposite to me.  The problem *is* that 
>> Walter doesn't think D is good enough, and so he think he needs to add 
>> ingredient C to woo large-systems developers or ingredient P to try to 
>> leap ahead of the competition.  If anything he's aiming too high, into 
>> territory that no one knows anything about, and which may pan out to be 
>> ultimately not so useful.  Or it may pan out to be fantastic.  I don't 
>> think anyone knows.
> 
> I'm sure this is what you're getting at, but it's both.  Because W keeps 
> adding feature C (lots, and lots, of feature C.  forever.) and thinks about 
> feature P, feature M, and feature T don't get any love and so fall into 
> decay.
> 
> It'd be great if development on featured C and P just _STOPPED_ for once and 
> if we could get some other features working _properly_.  You can't build a 
> house in a tidal zone without a hell of a foundataion. 
> 
> 

Perhaps this can best be accomplished with gdc. GDC from what I can 
gather is dead but the backend used by GCC is superior to the dm backend 
(not due to insufficient coding but simply due to significantly more 
people giving loving care, attention and eyes over a long period of 
time). I understand the dm chain will always be the formal one, but 
perhaps integrating some of the polishing into gdc might be a good way 
to complete a workable product. I would volunteer for this but my 
knowledge of compilers is rudimentary at best. Although I will be 
looking over source code to see if I can understand how it works.