Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 05:14:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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 think alienating the Tango crowd did way more in that reguard 
than any breaking change could.