Back in D after some absence, some perspective

[Stefan Koch]

On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 20:17:57 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 06:53:37 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 02:46:26 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>
>>> I also think it is quite safe to assume that DMD will never 
>>> implement any consistent semantics for the interaction of 
>>> forward references and introspection (because it will never 
>>> be the top-priority issue), but I don't want to give up on 
>>> forward references nor introspection.
>>
>> I hope that we can fix that.
>> Any serious advance of meta-programming in D is basically not 
>> possible without having this issue fixed.
>> And I think that, slowly transitioning the compiler to an 
>> asynchronous task based system
>> (get resolution and semantic analysis to be based on 
>> co-routines);
>> can get us there.
>
> Is that realistic for dmd?

Let me say it like this.
I think It is more realistic than giving up on dmd.