On 13 March 2014 14:52, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 3/12/14, 8:35 PM, Manu wrote: > >> On 13 March 2014 10:15, Walter Bright <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 3/12/2014 5:02 PM, Chris Williams wrote: >> >> As someone who would like to be able to use D as a language, >> professionally, >> it's more important to me that D gain future clients than that >> it maintains the >> ones that it has. Even more important is that it does both of >> those things. >> >> >> The D1 -> D2 transition very nearly destroyed D by sacrificing all >> the momentum it had. >> >> >> To draw that as a comparison to the issue on topic is one of the biggest >> exaggerations I've seen in a while, and you're not usually prone to that >> sort of thing. >> > > Actually a lot of measurements (post statistics, downloads) and plenty of > evidence (D-related posts on reddit) support that hypothesis. The > transition was a shock of much higher magnitude than both Walter and I > anticipated. You're seriously comparing a deprecation warning telling you to write 'virtual' infront of virtuals to the migration from D1 to D2?
