On Sunday, 28 December 2014 at 22:37:48 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 28/12/14 21:08, eles via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Except that porting this subset to its own takes quite some
time for
Sociomantics...
Porting a large codebase, with high performance requirements,
through a large number of breaking changes, many of which cause
silent changes in program behaviour ... it's going to take
It was simply ironic. If D1 was a subset of D2, the porting would
have been immediate: install a D2 compiler and that's all. There
is no such subset. It looks like one, that's another matter.
time. It would be much more straightforward to port a codebase
through a sequence of individual, well-defined breaking changes.
And? Isn't that exactly what I was saying? With so much
featuritis, porting is such a mess that one might better attempt
a complete rewrite. Why all deprecated and unfinished features if
they are not even good at porting legacy code?
