Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 16 22:14:57 PDT 2016


On 7/16/2016 7:17 PM, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
> I'm more interested in engaging on "in how many years will the D leadership be
> interested in engaging on the topic of D3?" I feel this is a significant
> omission from the vision doc, and that omission inflames a lot of the recurring
> animosity I see on the forums. Even an answer of "never" would be a significant
> improvement over "we refuse to engage on that". And I doubt you're really
> thinking "never".

There are no plans for D3 at the moment. All plans for improvement are backwards 
compatible as much as possible. D had its wrenching change with D1->D2, and it 
nearly destroyed us.


> I do think that ideas from academia will mostly cause a lot of unwanted noise in
> such a discussion - because academia, in my experience, is more focused on
> "software construction" than on "software evolution", and D takes an approach
> that is built on practical experience with evolution. But academia also has
> occasional nuggets of extreme value.

Academia certainly does have value for us. Andrei has a PhD in computer science, 
I have a BS in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and I believe the 
difference in our backgrounds makes for great complementary skills.


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