What is the meaning of @future ?

[Dylan Graham]

On Friday, 17 September 2021 at 14:37:29 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Friday, 17 September 2021 at 10:31:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 20:53:34 UTC, Elmar wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> It's just another "useless" attribute that the language has 
>> added before fixing any of the real problems :)
>>
>> Basically it reserves a symbol for the future.
>>
>> It's similar to creating ex. an empty function that throws an 
>> error or something like "Not implemented"
>>
>> While I understand why it was added and what purpose it serves 
>> then I fail to see why that  was prioritized over actual 
>> issues.
>>
>> It's solving an almost non-existing issue.
>
> I think the main reason it was added is because Sociomantic 
> asked for it, but they are of course not around anymore.

Off topic: what happened to them, out of curiosity?