new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul.

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue May 21 23:40:46 PDT 2013


On 2013-05-21 23:11, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> We need to be willing to make breaking changes when we actually need to make
> them and avoid them when we don't. We're past the point when we can tweak
> everything to improve it. There are too many people using D now and too many
> of them wanting stability for us to continue to make minor tweaks. Breaking
> changes need to provide real value. Unfortunately, in some cases, that means
> being stuck with some things that are less than ideal, but if we're forever
> tweaking everything to improve it, we'll never be stable enough for people to
> be able to depend on us for real work.

D is far from being called anything near stable. Every single release of 
DMD has broken DWT. I don't know for how many releases but quite many. 
Probably the whole 2.05x and 2.06x series.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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