On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 07:50:35 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 07:29:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2013-11-07 07:48, Rob T wrote:
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 :'(
In the contrary, ensuring stability gives it a chance to be
accepted/supported by major industrial players (like Facebook for
instance), which would help boost the language's development and
ecosystem.
