On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 07:29:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2013-11-07 07:48, Rob T wrote:
It's not zero benefit, although it may seem like that over a
small
period of time, it's over an extended period that
inconsistencies can
become a very significant cause of productivity loss. I'd
rather fix up
my old code, and I know how horrible that is especially for
production
code that is in use, it's just not fun, but if language
stability was
more important to me than productivity, I would not have made
the very
painful move from C/C++ to D.
I agree with you. Unfortunately the those with commit access do
not agree. They have no interest, what so ever, in breaking
backward compatibility due to consistency.
The result is exactly what happened with D1. At some arbitrary
point in time it was decided that backwards compatibility must
be kept, almost at all cost. This was decided even though the
language and the standard library was far from stable.
If this is true, than D lost a chance to became more popular,
unfortunately :'(
