On 2012-07-16 02:36, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Arguably, we've been adding too many new features (e.g. new lambda syntax and SIMD support), given that we're supposed to be making everything that we already have work properly, but those features haven't been breaking changes, and presumably forcing Walter to just fix bugs wouldn't be all that pleasant for him. But until we've fully implemented what we have, I think that it's just going to slow us down to little benefit to change the release model. Once we have, _then_ I'd love to see a release model which promotes major vs minor releases and the like, because then we can evolve the language and library as appropriate while still maintaining stable releases which programmers can rely on for long periods of time without worrying about breaking changes and whatnot.
There are lot of other things to do than fixing bugs. For example, the ongoing COFF/Win64 changes. I wouldn't really consider this as a new feature and not really as a bug fix either. Then we have Phobos, ARM and tools to work on as well.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
