D2 is really that stable as it is claimed to be?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Sep 23 12:14:10 PDT 2013


On 2013-09-21 23:12, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> I'm ambivalent because the matter is fuzzy. It is factually true that
> new releases will break code. On the other hand, that is the case with
> most compiler releases even for mature languages (at Facebook upgrading
> across minor gcc releases _always_ entails significant disruption). On
> the third hand (sic), there are companies and projects using D in the
> real world so stating that is unstable would do little else than either
> shoo people away for no good reason.

Some of these companies still use D1.

About the code breakage. I think it's still an issue that bugfixes and 
language changes occur in the same release. No notation of major, minor 
and patch releases.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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