D Language Quarterly Meeting Summary for January 2021

[Adam Ruppe]

On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 14:33:26 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> Absolutely-no-breakage-ever is basically the C++ approach, and 
> I have already explained why I think it's a bad idea, though I 
> recognize that reasonable people can disagree on this point.

My view is it isn't worth shipping mixed versions at all.

I'm against gratuitous breakage; it should actually provide a 
benefit, and I'm against dead-end breakage; it should provide a 
migration path.

But if there's a path to a benefit, people need to make a choice: 
take that path, or stop updating. Any middle ground is temporary 
at best anyway.