2 types of D users, both can live together happily if we adjust

[Vic via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 28 November 2014 at 23:06:15 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Friday, 28 November 2014 at 20:20:55 UTC, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
>> this has an easy solution: just stick with the chosen D 
>> version: nobody forces anyone to upgrade.
>
> Amen.

Here is the problem w/ that:
Lets stay that we use GDC (because of debugger) equivalent of D 
2.066(or whatever) for ~ year.

In essence, we check out of the D community. And when we come 
back, we find that the D community pool has not grown (due to 
some of the challenges we found). This means our project is not 
developed in an unsupported language, and we have to port.
(In forums I see maintainers talking about GC in core. I think 
that hooks for ref. counting should be in core, but move the 
implementation for the average case downstream. Plus many other 
things. To me, as a manager, figure out what your resources to be 
good at it, and no more).
I want to D, and the only way I see that is smaller D and the 
only way I see that is via a split so that the pool can grow.

Cheers,
Vic