On Saturday, 20 January 2024 at 15:25:35 UTC, Renato wrote:
On Saturday, 20 January 2024 at 14:14:10 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
- I have tried contributing to dub's project on
parallelization, I waste 1 week trying that and could not get
it working, so, I decided it would be a better use of my time
into rewriting a completely new dub which would focus on being
easy to read -- An example of that is how easily someone was
able to integrate an experimental support to building C with
it.
Could you expand on that? Perhaps someone else could continue
your work.
While I understand you preferred to write your own system (we
all probably prefer greenfield development, after all that
means it's fully yours, and you can fully understand it, own
it, and change it as you see fit which is a very attractive
proposition), I'm afraid your project will only be alive while
you have interest in maintaining it (I've seen similar projects
in other languages before, often they have one or two releases
before the author moves on to the next greenfield project) -
unless you manage to create an active community around it,
which is exceedingly difficult and might be more than you're
signing up for once a lot of people join in and start demanding
features - while dub, even if it's so "buggy" as you claim, is
the official tool everyone is likely to continue to use, and
consequently improvements to it would be highly welcome.
This quote says it all:
A full rebuild on Hipreme Engine reduced its compilation time
from 14 seconds to 3
dub is over engineered
We should encourage more of these projects, they defy the stalled
status quo in D
