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On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 21:23:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 5:25 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
>> Please stop repeating that "will break lots of code" mantra. D 
>> user base
>> is very small and it doesn't grow *because* issues like the one
>> discussed do not get fixed. When they are fixed people may 
>> start using
>> the language. And *then* you would have to worry about backward
>> compatibility. Look at the recent Manu's complaints and see 
>> what people
>> who would really use the language have wanted from it for 
>> years.
>
> I understand what you're saying, but the counterpoint is we 
> lost half the D community when D2 broke D1 code. We still have 
> at least one major D1 user that still finds it impractical to 
> upgrade to D2.
>

Should we talk about phobos and tango here ? I'm pretty sure you 
can attribute most of that departure from that event.

> It is unbelievably frustrating for people to have their code 
> break with each new release, have older projects all 
> invalidated, with few willing to do the maintenance work to 
> bring them back on line.

I have also bunch of code broken in the current release and find 
myself writing workaround for quirk in the language even for 
simple monomodule programs.

We have a project management issue here in the first place.