On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 20:35:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/8/14, 4:17 AM, Don wrote:
On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 19:07:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
And personally, I doubt that many companies would use D, even
if with
perfect C++ interop, if the toolchain stayed at the current
level.
That speculation turns out to not be true for Facebook. My turn
to speculate - many other companies have existing codebases in
C++, so Sociomantic is "special".
Well, when IMHO, when discussing 'strategies', pretty everything
it's a speculation...
C++ interlope can also be attrattive when you need to start a new
project, a you need C++ libs.
But, the point it's that, again, IMHO, you tend to conflate
Facebook need with D need (I know I'll receive pain back for this
;-).
Sociomantic is not so special at all, about not having a previous
C++ codebase: I personally know plenty of cases like that.
But if D don't stop thinking about "new feature" and never
terminate the previous plans, well, my speculations is that I
donno about future adopters, but for sure it's scouring actual
adopters; and the for sure it's based on what we feel here in SR
Labs company.
That's of course good, but the reality is we're in a
complicated trade-off space with "important", "urgent", "easy
to do", "return on investment", "resource allocation" as axes.
An example of the latter - ideally we'd put Walter on the more
difficult tasks and others on the easy wins. Walter working on
improving documentation might not be the best use of his time,
although better documentation is an easy win.
Well, I've read your and Walter comment on the multiple alias
this PR, so good: but the point that it was the community that
pushed both of you on that track, it's systematic about an
attitude.
And now, shields up, Ms Sulu!
--
/Paolo
