On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 10:10:03 UTC, Pawn wrote:
It's been expressed that there are now too many codebases such
that introducing "breaking changes" would upset many people and
companies. D is a mature language, not a young one.
To that.. I say...tuff ;-)
A breaking change between major version releases, should be
something users can accomodate. If they are not willing to
accomodate that, then fine, they can stay stuck on a working
version that works on their code.
But let that be a decision for them, rather than a decision they
force on everyone else.
D needs to be bold, and go where no one as has gone before... .. .
I just finished watching Walter's opening talk at D conf 2017,
and it seems that a lot of work has gone on to make D safe by
default, and yet, it is still not safe 'by default'.
