On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 18:00:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/5/2014 11:39 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
There's a perfectly good pull there for
not-virtual-by-default. No
amount of beating will get that horse through, despite almost
unanimous community support. That was... extremely
discouraging, to
say the least.
If you look, I have authored some pull requests that I think
are very good, but are twisting in the wind and have for some
time. Andrei has some, too. We all do.
I understand that we'd all like our efforts to find quick
approval and karma, but it isn't always going to happen, and we
need to not let that discourage us.
Generally, championing something you believe in tends to require
a great deal of personal effort into trying to make it a reality.