D as A Better C?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Feb 11 13:22:42 PST 2014


On 2/11/2014 1:13 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> And how do people find out about this language? Won't it need to be documented
> on the website? Where does that come from?

It'll be documented on the website.


> Will this be a separate project,

No. It's nothing more than a switch to the compiler. No separate project.


> If it's the same project, who fixes
> the bugs when a runtime hook is accidentally introduced by a dev that forgot
> better C existed?

A bugzilla entry, just as now. No change in procedure.


> Who manages the releases of better C?

No difference, it would not be separately released.


> Remember, D1 was just D2 without a bunch of features and we had to discontinue
> that because it was taking too much time to maintain. How will this be different?

It won't be a separate project or a separate codebase.


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