On Monday, 20 July 2015 at 04:02:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
How is this evil? This seems very good :)
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.
YAY, I have been wanting to learn how the compiler works for a
while but have been to lazy and don't want to look at so much
c++, having to be in D will make diggin into it so much more
attractive.
Also seems like the compiler as a library is not too far away, is
that going to be apart of the plan eventually?
Perhaps we should name this 2.100, to signify such a milestone.
Your the boss, I dont gaf what the version numbers are.
2.101+ -
1. Take advantage of D features to improve quality.
Again, yay...
2. Go to full lazy semantic analysis of imports, rather than
the current "analyze them all"
What effects will this have? Faster compile times? Smaller
binaires?
3. Rethink what "speculative instantiation" of templates means
so we can have a coherent process of compiling them.
Sounds complicated... what effects will this have? Simpler
internals? What effects for end user?
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.
Oh god yes
5. Get rid of reliance on the global error count. This has been
mostly done, it just hast to be finished.
No idea what this is referring to..
6. Convert the back end to D as well.
<3
This all seems very not evil.
One question I have, are there any plans for a language clean up
of sorts, there are a bunch of little features and some big that
don't really make sense anymore. D is starting to feel like it's
going down the road of c++ with lots of baggage and unwillingness
to get rid of old features even if they are discouraged from use,
all for the sake of backwards compatibility. I know D has been
getting progressively more reserved about breaking changes, do
you see that changing any time in the future? 1 year? 3 years?
Would automatic conversion tools make you more willing to break
things?
