On 2012-11-28 08:17, SiegeLord wrote:
With that kind of attitude D2 will never stabilize.
I remember two years ago I was told that once TDPL was published, the
language would become stable. Two years later everything is just as in
flux as it was back then.
TDPL was release way, way too soon. It was written before many of the
features were even implemented. Then at a later stage "Whoops, this
apparently doesn't work, we need to break TDPL".
The welcome fixation of bugs is befouled with
deliberate code breakage left and right. There is absolutely no
guarantee of backwards compatibility between DMD versions. This
situation is simply unheard of. Vast majority of respectable software
inititives provide a stable version that guarantees source and possibly
binary compatibility, and an unstable version that does not. They use
versioning schemes where a match of some part of the version number
assures compatibility.
I think all this is mostly a project management issue. I don't think the
breaking changes in them self is the biggest problem. See my post in
another thread:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.2250.1353947827.5162.digitalmar...@puremagic.com?page=5#post-k94g19:2427kh:241:40digitalmars.com
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/Jacob Carlborg
