D is dead

[Ali]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 01:57:03 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> At this point I can either use the work-around I already have 
> and (try to, obviously unsuccessfully) forget about it, file a 
> bug report that will be (justifiably) ignored because no-one 
> else can reproduce it, or spend an unknown amount of time (two 
> days would probably be low-balling at this point) in trying to 
> get this to reproduce on a watered down version of the code.
>

1. use the work-around, then
2. spend two man days, spread over two weeks 30-60 minutes at a 
time, trying to reproduce on a watered down version of code , 
i.e. trying to isolate the problem
3. refactor once the real problem is found

from this nice article written by one of the better visionary 
developer John Ousterhout
> If you don't know what the problem was, you haven't fixed it
http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php