My first experience as a D Newbie

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 02:08:13 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> I can easily think of a dozen extensions to D, that need to be 
>> part of the standard library or extended library of D, like 
>> DCompute, mir-algorithm, ...
>
> Yes, well we sponsor mir-algorithm, and would like to sponsor 
> dcompute too, but I haven't had any time.  And I think it would 
> be by far premature for them to be in Phobos, because the 
> consequence of raising the bar for quality in Phobos has been 
> that it stifles the growth of new things.  Mir itself was 
> originally in Phobos experimental and Ilya asked for it to be 
> withdrawn, for that very reason.
>

The situation is similar for DCompute with the added constraint 
that it works exclusively with LDC and has only very recently 
reached a state of being usable. Development is sporadic due to 
my available time.

Laeeth, I'll be quite busy for the next couple of weeks so 
there's no need to hurry.