D easily overlooked?

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 10:07 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-
d wrote:
> […]
> 
> Those languages were of course designed within the restrictions 
> of a GC to begin with too, but there seems to be a Go 2 language 
> in the works now:

I had assumed D was designed to be a GC language from the outset.

> https://blog.golang.org/toward-
> go2?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email
> 

It seems that the Go team are using backward compatibility as a rod for
their own backs just as Java/JDK folk did. There is a big difference
between taking the community with you, cf. Python 2 → 3 for an anti-
pattern, versus not allowing breaking changes, cf. the mess Java is in.

-- 
Russel.
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