State of D 2018 Survey

[Kagamin]

On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 12:01:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> So having D2.999 is fine per se, but advertises a lack of 
> change and a lack of ambition since the language name is D not 
> D2.

D just doesn't follow semver. If it did, we would have D79 now, 
nothing else even comes close to this. And I suspect it won't 
adopt semver because major number would be so ridiculously high 
and will advertize something else.

> Fortran, C++, and Java show an obsessive adherence to backward 
> compatibility and yet they increase their major numbers to give 
> the appearance at least of forward progress.

C++ and Fortran don't have version numbers, those are brand 
numbers.