Breaking changes in Visual C++ 2015

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

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Very interesting story.

> No, I'm not suggesting we unbundle unit testing, Ddoc, coverage 
> analysis, profiling, etc., into separate tools for marketing 
> purposes. I'm just bemused by how perceptions work.

Affect is like an iceberg - 90% below conscious awareness - but 
it shapes global perceptions, processing, and decision-making in 
the brain.  (See  Camerer et al review paper).

What is not widely appreciated even by putative experts is that 
affect shapes perceptions themselves, not just the hedonic 
evaluation of those perceptions.  And people feel a certain way 
towards D and look for reasons to explain their affect - it's 
affect that is primary, not the rationalizations given.  But 
affect towards entities and institutions can and does change, 
sometimes for mysterious reasons (although the 'facts' tend to 
change in line with the perceptions).  This is all in gestalt 
psychology, and some of the work on mass psychological behaviour 
done since then.

This is also a neglected facet of financial market behaviour.  In 
2002 Germany was the sick man of Europe according to the 
Economist.  But really, this was the moment of greatest error in 
articulating that perception, because she was at that moment 
beginning reforms that would lead to her prosperity today.  It's 
how one responds to challenges that is important.

Perhaps D might be on a similar path (not sick, but maturing, 
with concern over immaturity not fitting the nascent blossoming 
of new tooling, library interfaces, GC improvements, memory 
allocators, etc).