Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
The point I'd've liked to have made is that yes - Walter has (obviously!) done a lot for D. Without him, D would not exist. But the fact is - and I doubt you'll find many who will disagree with me - it doesn't matter how awesome Walter is, or how much of a visionary he is, or how good his managerial skills are; DMDFE is just buggy, no offense meant to Walter as a person. That there are 30 new bugs posted to the bugzilla every month from a relatively small group of users is testament that DMDFE is buggy. And the current development model of "have people put things in bugzilla where there is a very good chance that they will never get fixed" and "be extremely skeptical of any and all patches that people submit" does not work. As I said - simple flow problem. 30 in, 15 out. Eventually the tank is going to overflow.
It's normal for something as complex as a compiler to have literally thousands of bugs in it. I remember once years back when rumor had it that MS fixed 2000 bugs in one update of VC alone. Eventually things will settle down.
The point, also, is not the bug *count*. It's whether or not particular bugs matter. Most of them simply do not matter beyond looking bad, because they do not prevent one from using the compiler.
