Designing a consistent language is *very* hard

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, April 28, 2012 21:27:28 q66 wrote:
> So .. D3 is coming? *runs*

I think that the last time that Andrei mentioned anything about D3, he said 
something about maybe 10 years from now. Certainly, if we were to embark on D3 
now, we'd just hamstring D2 and probably kill it. Once D2 is fully stable and 
well-established, we can look at what's worked with it and what hasn't and 
look at creating a new iteration of the language. But doing that before D2 is 
fully stable is suicide. We're taking long enough to reach that _without_ 
doing does of feature changes.

We can probably add backwards-compatible features later on, but for now, the 
focus needs to be on stabilizing what we have, and we _definitely_ don't want 
to completely redesign any aspects of the language at this point.

- Jonathan M Davis