On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 at 09:26:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2012-11-27 22:23, Walter Bright wrote:
I understand what you're saying, but the counterpoint is we
lost half
the D community when D2 broke D1 code. We still have at least
one major
D1 user that still finds it impractical to upgrade to D2.
It is unbelievably frustrating for people to have their code
break with
each new release, have older projects all invalidated, with
few willing
to do the maintenance work to bring them back on line.
In the keynote for the latest Ruby on Rails conference. The
original creator of Ruby on Rails goes out and say: Yes, Rails
4 will break existing code. He also says that progress is good
and one should keep a young mind.
...
Lets see if the Ruby community will take it better than the
Python one has.
--
Paulo
