Who here actually uses D?

[Robert Clipsham]

On 01/01/11 22:48, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I've done my doctoral work in D, which was a pretty large project for
> one person (I guess a few tens of KLOC).
>
> I've also hit unpleasant bugs on occasion as those you mention - it's
> very jarring. I wonder how we could improve the process to give special
> priority to issues that (a) waste a lot of time tracking down, and (b)
> have no or difficult workarounds.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to create such a system without people 
being paid to work on dmd and the runtime - people will fix the bugs 
they want to, you can't make them fix anything. Obviously you can 
influence what gets fixed, not to a huge extent though. Ideally the 
voting system would outline what needs the most effort, but people don't 
idle on bugzilla enough for it to work so well. I wonder if changing the 
'vote' button to a 'like' button would make any difference, if 
facebook's any indication, people like to like things ;p

> Andrei

I guess I should probably apologise if I sounded hot-headed at all in my 
post too - just had a rather stressful evening battling with compiler 
bugs - one of those ones that seems to morph into about 3 or 4 other 
bugs as you narrow it down, and each compiler you try yields a 
completely different result at the end of it. I decided to give up, 
rant, relax, and leave it for another day!

-- 
Robert
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