On 20/07/2015 4:02 p.m., Walter Bright wrote:
2.068 - resolve remaining regressions and release
2.069 - translate to D. No new features, no refactoring. Only regression
fixes and what's already in HEAD. This should give us a solid baseline.
It also means that open PRs that address other issues will not be pulled
for 2.069.
Perhaps we should name this 2.100, to signify such a milestone.
Or instead, move to SEMVER? Same effect.
Although, now might be a good time to think about D3. After all, we are
having a massive change in the ecosystem. It wouldn't be that strange to
think of it as more of a push for polishing.
2.101+ -
1. Take advantage of D features to improve quality.
As a library perhaps?
2. Go to full lazy semantic analysis of imports, rather than the current
"analyze them all"
Ooo
3. Rethink what "speculative instantiation" of templates means so we can
have a coherent process of compiling them.
Can the plan include stripping out unneeded ones? And even inlining some?
4. Redo CTFE interpreter so it only rarely needs to allocate memory.
This was already done for constant folding, but now it's time for the
rest of the interpreter.
Less memory = win! E.g. can we compile + run phobos test suite in < 1gb
memory?
Because it's a real pain finding single board computers that support
more then 1gb.
5. Get rid of reliance on the global error count. This has been mostly
done, it just hast to be finished.
6. Convert the back end to D as well.
Ooo, yes please.
Perhaps even as a library?
I would love to see dmd literally along with it's backends as dub
packages. That would be *high pitched* awesome.
