Evolving the D Language

[Walter Bright]

On 7/7/2023 7:56 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> It just seems to me, instead of complaining when features become deprecated, 
> people will complain when obsolete feature becomes deprecated and they see the 
> message. The proposal here is that they see the message later. In the meantime, 
> nothing will prevent people from using the obsolete feature all over.

The problem has a lot to do with people wanting to use 3rd party libraries, and 
it being impractical to upgrade those libraries when the maintainer of those 
libraries is no longer active. If a user's project depends on several such 
libraries, it places an undue burden on the user.