On 05/30/2016 12:25 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 05/29/2016 09:58 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
The problem is not active users. The problem is companies who have > 10K
LOC and libraries that are no longer maintained. E.g. It took
Sociomantic eight years after D2's release to switch only a few parts of
their projects to D2. With the loss of old libraries/old code (even old
answers on SO), all of a sudden you lose a lot of the network effect
that makes programming languages much more useful.
D1 -> D2 was a vastly more disruptive change than getting rid of
auto-decoding would be.
It was also made at a time when the community was smaller by a couple
orders of magnitude. -- Andrei
