Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

jmh530 john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 16:58:12 UTC 2018


On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 16:00:10 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
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>
> You simply can't share a D program with anyone else. It's an 
> endless cycle of compiler upgrades and figuring out how to fix 
> code that stops compiling. It doesn't work for those of us that 
> are busy. Why there is not a stable branch with releases once a 
> year is quite puzzling. (And no, "just use the old compiler" is 
> not an answer.)

...hmm...I can't recall anyone ever suggesting to have a stable 
branch. It's a good idea.

That being said, I see forward progress on reducing breakage. The 
CI infrastructure has improved a lot and there are a number of 
dub projects that also get checked.


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