Handling constructive criticism

[Bill Baxter]

Hans W. Uhlig wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 

I think many people would like to see GCC become the official back-end 
of D.  It has certainly been proposed before.

Walter, however, is concerned about GPL taint, and he doesn't even want 
to *look* at any GCC code for fear that rabid GPL fans will claim he 
stole GPL code and put it into DigitalMars products.  Though the 
possibility seems remote, I can't say I blame him.

BUT! LLVM has no such licensing problems.  It's got a very nice liberal 
license that Apple and others have been taking advantage of to create 
both proprietary and non-proprietary stuff.
http://llvm.org/releases/2.2/LICENSE.TXT

LLVM is the way to go.  Go Thomas Go!

--bb