Calypso and the future of D

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 16:39:40 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 19:35:11 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> I posted some thoughts on web docs writeup of C+= interface 
>> here.
>>
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/fmjehcyzhnirybmnjloj@forum.dlang.org#post-fmjehcyzhnirybmnjloj:40forum.dlang.org
>>
>> Do you think we could make binaries of calypso available for 
>> download ?  I know it is alpha, but it is so strategically 
>> important, and just getting clang to build is not always so 
>> easy given the stuff in gcc 4.9 with size__align_t ?
>>
>> We should mention calypso in the web docs, and link to it too 
>> (with appropriate caveats).
>
> It feel slightly too early, Calypso shouldn't be far from 
> getting most of the C++ standard library to work but it still 
> chokes on most tangles of templates (afaics it all boils down 
> to a few issues). Also operators, function templates and 
> merging latest LDC would be nice and not a lot of work away 
> (last merge was mid-October, before better Win64 ABI support).
>
> As soon as this is done I'll make builds for Windows and Linux 
> users.

Thanks.  People like to play with things when it is easy, and 
bear in mind what the present alternative is.  But I respect your 
desire to maintain a standard of quality.