On 18 March 2018 at 02:19, Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 18 March 2018 at 04:25:48 UTC, Manu wrote: >> >> What is so hard about implementing a pow intrinsic that CTFE can use? >> It's ridiculous that we can't CTFE any non-linear function... >> It's one of those blocker bugs that's been there almost 10 years. > > > It's been available in LDC since 1.6.0. > https://godbolt.org/g/Yx7PyK > > - Johan > > (PS. The aggressive style of your message would not motivate me to improve > things for you.)
It's not aggression, it's a decade of compounded frustration. I consider myself extremely patient with D, but how far am I supposed to extend patience before I admit that I'm wasting my precious time investing in something that's never going to 'get there'? I still want to love D, but I'm drifting away and using it less and less these days, and the main reason is that something so trivial as this, which has been a recorded bug for almost a decade and comes up often, still never moves. I'm always waiting... and so I find other things to do with my time. After being too busy to work on my side projects for a while, I finally had a small block of time. I jumped in, did a few things, then hit the same brick wall that I hit 3 years ago. My momentum comes to an instant halt, and I feel like I'm just less likely to return to the project again in the future wrt competing for priorities. Ideally, if I make my blockers known (this one is so simple!!), and try and re-awaken them semi-regularly... I'd like to think getting back to something 3 years later, I'm able to move forward. But it's still most of the same blockers I identified within my first 2-3 days of using D ~9 years ago; I still can't ARC, I still can't pass an rvalue by ref, and I still can't x^^y in ctfe. This one has gotta be by far the simplest thing I've ever complained about! Anyway, I've pretty much run out of energy to advocate a thing that still doesn't even solve my own needs (let along the needs of my companies), based on the assumption that it's fast moving, and deficiencies will be resolved 'soon enough' after it's made known that they are a blocker. I'm sorry, 'soon enough' is not soon enough... I've run out of patience, and I'm becoming increasingly frustrated and toxic. I was gonna spend today coding, but I think I'll go outside instead.
