How much time will D1 be around?

[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> The point I'd've liked to have made is that yes - Walter has
> (obviously!) done a lot for D.  Without him, D would not exist.  But
> the fact is - and I doubt you'll find many who will disagree with me -
> it doesn't matter how awesome Walter is, or how much of a visionary he
> is, or how good his managerial skills are; DMDFE is just buggy, no
> offense meant to Walter as a person.  That there are 30 new bugs
> posted to the bugzilla every month from a relatively small group of
> users is testament that DMDFE is buggy.  And the current development
> model of "have people put things in bugzilla where there is a very
> good chance that they will never get fixed" and "be extremely
> skeptical of any and all patches that people submit" does not work.
> As I said - simple flow problem.  30 in, 15 out.  Eventually the tank
> is going to overflow.

It's normal for something as complex as a compiler to have literally 
thousands of bugs in it. I remember once years back when rumor had it 
that MS fixed 2000 bugs in one update of VC alone. Eventually things 
will settle down.

The point, also, is not the bug *count*. It's whether or not particular 
bugs matter. Most of them simply do not matter beyond looking bad, 
because they do not prevent one from using the compiler.