On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 10:07:53 UTC, Don wrote:
Yes, that's true, and so my opinions should be slightly
weighted downwards. But even so, the reality is that bugfixes
cause breakages anyway. Most code that isn't actively being
maintained, is broken already. If you're an early adopter, you
expect to have a lot of breakage pain.
The thing that is frustrating is when decisions are made as if
we were much further along the adoption/disruption cycle, than
where we actually are.
We don't yet have huge, inflexible users that demand stability
at all costs.
There was widespread agreement on this, from all of the eight
companies at DConf who were using D commercially.
From a recent post of mine:
The big temptation for software developers is to *promise*
stability in order to attract the users they need in order to get
the feedback they need in order to create the best possible
design, and then break stability with the new design.
