The Case Against Autodecode

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/30/2016 12:25 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 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 LOC and libraries that are no longer maintained.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.

It was also made at a time when the community was smaller by a couple 
orders of magnitude. -- Andrei