tooling quality and some random rant

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Alan Smithee" <email at example.com> wrote in message 
news:ij967s$12rb$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Andrej Mitrovic Wrote:
>
>> Could you elaborate on that? Aren't .di files supposed to be auto-
> generated by the compiler, and not hand-written?
>
> Yea, aren't they? How come no one uses that feature? Perhaps it's
> intrinsically broken? *hint hint*
>

"Perhaps"? Well, is it or isn't it? Are we supposed to just assume that lack 
of use means it's actually broken and not just unpopular?


>
> This NG assumes a curious stance. Sprouting claims and standing by
> them until they're shown invalid, and then some.

Just like you're doing?  If you're sure that .di files are broken, then 
*show us* how.

>
> "But it takes time!" ... uh, yea, how's for 11 years? Or at least 4
> which D has been past the 1.0 version. How many people gave up on
> their med/large projects and moved to "lesser" languages in this
> span?

Then contribute instead of just flaming.