The Case Against Autodecode

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon May 30 09:25:20 PDT 2016


On 05/29/2016 09:58 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>
> The problem is not active users. The problem is companies who have > 10K
> LOC and libraries that are no longer maintained. E.g. It took
> Sociomantic eight years after D2's release to switch only a few parts of
> their projects to D2. With the loss of old libraries/old code (even old
> answers on SO), all of a sudden you lose a lot of the network effect
> that makes programming languages much more useful.
>

D1 -> D2 was a vastly more disruptive change than getting rid of 
auto-decoding would be.



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