What is the meaning of @future ?

[evilrat]

On Saturday, 18 September 2021 at 08:02:13 UTC, Dylan Graham 
wrote:
> 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?

IIRC they went out of business for inability to compete OR it was 
consumed by a another advertising company, there was a thread on 
a forum from Sonke about that event.