Give me a break

[Steve Teale]

dsimcha Wrote:

> I feel that miscellaneous toolchain issues (other than implementing changes to the
> spec and fixing bugs that severely affect the usability of language features) are
> an order of magnitude less important because this stuff can always be done after
> the fact without breaking code.  In other words, once the spec is finalized and a
> decent reference implementation is out the door, people can confidently use D2
> knowing that the situation will only get better.  Until then, it's two steps
> forward, one step back when code breaks in non-trivial ways due to a spec change
> or a compiler bug makes a seemingly useful feature that you planned on using
> absolutely useless.

Dsimcha,

Everything can be done later. The concern is 'will it'. If D dies on the way because people come to look __again__ and see same-old, same-old, then this is a real risk.

Steve