On D development

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/24/12 5:21 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>
>> That fosters balkanization.
>>
>> At this point in D's evolution I very strongly think it's the time to
>> put to good use its many features, instead of making it any easier to
>> add more. Constraints are liberating. Innovation can be found in the
>> minds of people, and the thought that there's always a new feature
>> that can be added instead of an innovative solution within the
>> existing language stifles creativity.
>
> We should also think what's the purpose of D development, that is what
> does it mean for D to be "successful".
>
> Its adoption patterns in more than ten years let me think that maybe D
> can't aim at becoming a very widely used language.

This reasoning is flawed. We're talking about an evolving process, with 
a lot happening in the past couple of years.

Andrei