On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 00:37:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/11/14, 11:36 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 18:56:15 UTC, Indica wrote:
I'd like to point out that Walter and Andrei can't do it all
themselves. It takes a team and part of pulling it off is
well defined
goals and job descriptions with devoted people.
This is one of the motivations for my remark. They both have
probably
more tan enough to do without having to wade through the
tremendous
volume of responses.
I could use more tan, can't wait for the summer :o).
I'm glad you brought this up and that there was some good
discussion following it.
Walter is a very nice man. He dislikes saying "no" to people on
account of them getting mad at him or the language. So he'd
rather not answer.
Lately we figured that's actually worse because it creates
frustration (the perception is the request/effort is ignored,
not acknowledged and declined). So we set to become more
decisive about things. You may have noticed in recent history
that we started more often to set the foot on the ground on one
topic or another.
We hope that that is healthy for the community. It also means
for us all to accept the reality that in matters of judgment we
can't always do what others believe is best, and on occasion
(hopefully not too often!) even not what would objectively be
the best decision. What I'd like us to achieve and convey in
future debates is that whatever decision we make, we are making
it in full understanding of all involved arguments.
The "perpetual design" stage of D has ended. We've made our
bed, it's time to lie in it. I foresee only one more area of
possible breakage - thread support, and hopefully only code
that was already broken should cease to compile.
Andrei
Appreciate the change. The increased clarity is helpful. Thanks.
Joseph
