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

[Timon Gehr]

On 09/25/2013 01:17 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/24/2013 2:56 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> It seems nobody comments on almost anything DMC-related anyway. Isn't
>> this the DMC newsgroup: http://forum.dlang.org/group/c++ ? If it is,
>> there's hardly a single post per month..
>
> You overlook that it's a very old compiler - 30 years. In its day it had
> maybe 100,000 users.
>
> People do still use it today, to compile dmd for Win32 for example, and
> nobody has yet
>
>       EVER
>
> commented on that feature, unless I prompted them, when
>
> I have pointed it out many times over the decades, and the response is
> always:
>
>      SO WHAT
>
>      WHO CARES
>
> etc. So please forgive my grumpiness about if clang implements it,
> suddenly it's the greatest, most useful feature ever.
>

30 years (pitifully) seems to be a plausible time frame for an idea of 
merit to become fashionable.