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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/28/12 4:26 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-11-27 22:23, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> In the keynote for the latest Ruby on Rails conference. The original
> creator of Ruby on Rails goes out and say: Yes, Rails 4 will break
> existing code. He also says that progress is good and one should keep a
> young mind.
>
> I can assure you that Ruby on Rails has vastly more commercial
> developers than D has.
>
> What I mean is that that process of improving the language most not stop
> and should always continue. It's just the process how that is made that
> makes the big difference.

Yep. Rails 4 breaks Rails 3 code. Not Rails 3.061 breaks Rails 3.060 
code :o).

Andrei