Lang.NEXT panel

Thu Jun 12 10:40:59 PDT 2014

On 6/10/2014 12:35 PM, justme wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:13:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Of possible interest.
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/278twt/panel_systems_programming_in_2014_and_beyond/
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> IMHO, the coolest thing was when Rob Pike told about the tool they made
> for automatically upgrading user source code to their next language
> version.
>
> That should be quite easy to implement now in D, and once done, would
> give much needed room for breaking changes we feel should be done. Pike
> seemed to be extremely satisfied they did it.

Personally, I wouldn't be comfortable trusting such a tool. Besides, I 
find that upgrading a codebase to a newer language version is one of the 
most trivial tasks I ever face in software development - even in D.

It's a cute trick, but not a worthwhile use of development resources.