D compiles fast, right? Right??

[Stefan Koch]

On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 20:04:04 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 01:08:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> Exactly, which is why I'm insisting this - and not compiler 
>> benchmarking, let alone idle chattaroo in the forums - is 
>> where we need to hit. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, 
>> is a high-impact preapproved item of great general interest. 
>> Shall we start the auction?
>
> Are you aware of this PR? https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8124

This is but a layer of paint over the real problem.
Unneeded Dependencies. Programming should not be a game of jenga.
Piling things on top of other things rarely works out.