On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 02:17:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
A lot of us, myself included, have been very critical of Andrei
lately but I want to list of the excellent work he has done
over the years:
First, early D was very different to D of today. Andrei changed
that, for the better. He's a genius of innovation with
templates and good at getting to the bottom of generic code.
The Range concept is excellent, the logical extension of
iterators like slices are to pointers, and std.algorithm is
generally brilliant.
Many of the patterns we take for granted in D, from templates
in general to conversion and literals on top of them, to ranges
and algorithms, were principally designed and implemented by
Andrei.
std.experimental.allocator is very well done and the Design by
Introspection is not just smart insight to the generic
programming problem, but actually explored and explained in
such a way that we can hook onto it.
His talks and writing are amusing and informative, and his
dedication unquestionable.
Andrei Alexandrescu is a very good, innovative programmer and
writer who invents and explains things that others can't even
consider.
We're lucky to have him with us!
The Andrei + Walter combo has an excellent track record of being
consistently right about lots of things, whether we like it or
not :) That one personally don't like feature X or Y doesn't mean
it's not a good idea in the grand scheme of things. Bit of trust
is the least we can do! I was all for removing virtual by
default, in the end it didn't change life meaningfully to have it
or not.
