Why the @ in @safe? & UDAs

[SomeDude]

On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 07:50:35 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 07:29:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:
>> On 2013-11-07 07:48, Rob T wrote:
>> I agree with you. Unfortunately the those with commit access 
>> do not agree. They have no interest, what so ever, in breaking 
>> backward compatibility due to consistency.
>>
>> The result is exactly what happened with D1. At some arbitrary 
>> point in time it was decided that backwards compatibility must 
>> be kept, almost at all cost. This was decided even though the 
>> language and the standard library was far from stable.
>
> If this is true, than D lost a chance to became more popular, 
> unfortunately :'(

In the contrary, ensuring stability gives it a chance to be 
accepted/supported by major industrial players (like Facebook for 
instance), which would help boost the language's development and 
ecosystem.