Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 20 July 2016 at 20:12:14 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 15:22:19 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Something being dfix-able is not enough for the simple reason 
> that legacy code in D is already becoming a thing, despite D2 
> only existing for nine years. A complaint has arisen many times 
> in the forum and in DConfs that there are many packages on 
> code.dlang.org or on Github that don't compile because the 
> author stopped maintaining them. In many cases, these repo's 
> have only been unmaintained for a year(!) or less, and they 
> already don't compile.
>
> [...]

Thanks for the explanation. If most changes aren't dfixable (or 
aren't believed to be), that explains why the discussions I've 
read don't mention the dfix approach.