D3 is potentially damaging

[deadalnix]

Le 02/05/2012 03:11, Alex Rønne Petersen a écrit :
> Yes and no. In theory, it's good to stabilize the language now and make
> a new version of it later which has breaking changes. In practice,
> that's annoying as hell. We've already seen how slow the transition from
> D1 to D2 is (not was; it's still happening!). D2 to D3 is going to be
> even slower (see in particular your Python 2 vs 3 example) simply
> because more and more people are going to be using D2 and therefore
> can't afford to port their applications to D3.
>

PHP does a good job with that. I include supporting several versions of 
the language at a given moment.