Andrei Alexandrescu:
I agree with the sentiment but let's not use oblique rhetorical questions to drive a point.
Those questions aren't fully rhetorical because I don't know those answers and I'd like to know. I don't know why Walter thinks removing bit intrisics is more urgent than working on designing/implementing "scope" or similar things, I don't know why D1 development isn't discontinued yet (and I don't know why the pull requests are merged according to a mostly LIFO pattern), and so on.
Allow me to extend again the invitation to participate to the development by contributing code.
Given the many factors in this equation, I think my time is better spent elsewhere, teaching D to people in Real Life, showing D solutions to people in sites (like: reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/ ), writing D examples/tutorials in various sites, etc, because there's no point in creating a language that no one knows about.
This page shows many missing D programs, I invite people here to fill some of those blanks:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reports:Tasks_not_implemented_in_D Bye, bearophile
