D as a betterC a game changer ?

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On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 13:37:17 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 10:10:03 UTC, Pawn wrote:
>> It's been expressed that there are now too many codebases such 
>> that introducing "breaking changes" would upset many people 
>> and companies. D is a mature language, not a young one.
>
> Just make it opt in at the module level and have the opposite 
> attributes added. I suggest:
>
> @strict module foo;
>
>
> And that little @strict (or whatever name) thing indicates you 
> want newer stuff for the entire module.
>
> No breakage, no community split, very little hassle. Javascript 
> has had a fair amount of success with opt in stuff like this.

Well, to advance the language, I think we need to start breaking 
some egss, but, we also need a magic wand.

Scott Meyers makes the case well, for C++.

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html

Someone needs to make the case for D too.