On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 19:00:57 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> For some reason this ranks below colourful error-messages.
>
> That's just something that Walter was able to bang out in an hour

Yet he recently, months after starting, complained that "technical debt", specifically citing coloring error messages, was eating enough of his time to cause a forum lamentation.

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 19:54:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 19:00:57 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>>> For some reason this ranks below colourful error-messages.
>>
>> That's just something that Walter was able to bang out in an hour
>
> Yet he recently, months after starting, complained that "technical debt", specifically citing coloring error messages, was eating enough of his time to cause a forum lamentation.

... and Mike did put _a lot_ of effort in pushing colorful error messages:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/projects/2

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 10:35:06 UTC, Benny wrote:
> Auto generated libraries where all functions are dumped into massive one pagers.

This is why I just forked the documentation (well, I tried to get it upstream but I think upstream is a brick wall and not worth trying anymore)

http://dpldocs.info/std.datetime.date

That's still not amazing, but it is a lot easier to navigate and link.

It also has search: http://dpldocs.info/locate?q=daysInMonth


> No clear function calls:

http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/std.datetime.date.Date.daysInMonth.html

So I also show that info because it is somewhat important to understand the contract, but I tried to present it so the name and position among its parents and siblings is clear.



Of course, I argue part of the problem is I'm sure I'm not the only one who has decided to just fork rather than try to keep wrestling with upstream...

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 19:59:23 UTC, Seb wrote:
> ... and Mike did put _a lot_ of effort in pushing colorful error messages:

Yes, that was a direct result of that forum post I alluded to. It isn't something he (or most anyone else, in my experience) really cares about, but he felt if he did it then many Walter wouldn't waste any more time on it.

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 18:05:30 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> contribute their skills. For instance, Mike Parker's work on the D blog has been a great improvement in communication the past year or two.

Yep, to have a living blog is very important IMHO.

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 18:05:30 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> contribute their skills. For instance, Mike Parker's work on the D blog has been a great improvement in communication the past year or two.

Yep, having a living blog is very important I think.  It is always something I look at when visiting project website, just to assess where the project is moving.

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 20:03:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>
> {snip} (well, I tried to get it upstream but I think upstream is a brick wall and not worth trying anymore)

That is very concerning to hear.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 08:05:37PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 19:59:23 UTC, Seb wrote:
> > ... and Mike did put _a lot_ of effort in pushing colorful error messages:
> 
> Yes, that was a direct result of that forum post I alluded to. It isn't something he (or most anyone else, in my experience) really cares about, but he felt if he did it then many Walter wouldn't waste any more time on it.

In fact, I find the colors distracting.  Pretty? Certainly.  But helpful?  Not really, at least not for me.  I'd rather stick with just B&W. But all things considered, it's a pretty minor issue, and one that's not worth the time to complain about.  (Haha, and look what I just did. :-P)


T

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Latin's a dead language, as dead as can be; it killed off all the Romans, and now it's killing me! -- Schoolboy

On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
>
> Andrei

The kinda small discussion on ycombinator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16270841

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 21:42:47 UTC, Ali wrote:
> The kinda small discussion on ycombinator
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16270841

Interesting... most of them don't grok C++, D, Java or Go... Hope people don't look to ycombinator for answers.