Lua JIT 2.0b

[Justin Johansson]

bearophile Wrote:

> Justin Johansson:
> 
> > Can we hire this guy for D?
> 
> To create the best JIT of the world you need skills that are probably quite different from the skills needed to design a new language constrained to be kinda backwards compatible with C and that's in the range of complexity of C++. I think you need a person able to design things in a very orthogonal way, to not add more special cases in D2 and remove some of the ones already present. I think a person like Guy L. Steele Jr. may be fitter :-)
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

Of course.  It wasn't a serious question (plus who's got money to hire anyway); and, btw, certainly not in way meant to be disrespectful of the many talented people among the core D developers, committers/volunteers and wider D community.

ciao,
justin