Why is D unpopular, redux.

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 11:38:55 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
> I think we need a lot more people just jumping in and coding 
> wildly ahead, and then sharing their results. An experimental 
> branch? D3? Whatever must be changed to make that possible, I 
> support it.

You need a solid modular architecture to support evolutionary 
development. There is enough CPU power to take the overhead in 
2022. Designing architecture is hard on-paper work, not something 
you evolve though. So that is where one should start.

If you want merging to be easy then you need to select features 
that are independent in each iteration. People working on random 
things make the process harder and more brittle, but a solid 
architecture and AST macros can help. Depends, only one type 
system feature at a time for instance...

Maybe Neat and SDC could be joined and form a foundation?

Think O(N) and modularity and forget all other performance 
metrics until you hit v1.0... Designing for flexibility is quite 
challenging. GC is ok etc...