Suggestion: Bug fix releases (Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

[Yuxuan Shui]

On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 11:59:37 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
wrote:
> Just found by chance, if someone is interested [1] [2].
>
> /Paolo
>
> [1] 
> https://gitlab.com/mihails.strasuns/blog/blob/master/articles/on_leaving_d.md
> [2] 
> https://blog.mist.global/articles/My_concerns_about_D_programming_language.html

I find Dicebot's article resonates quite strongly with me. I have 
been using D for hobby projects (i.e. not a lot of code) for 
about 3 years. During that time I found a handful of compiler 
bugs. An average programmer like me shouldn't be able to find 
bugs in the compiler so frequently.

And there are other problems, like language features interact 
weirdly, unhelpful/misleading error messages. All of this really 
gives me an impression that D is an immature language.

I think this is a pretty big problem, and I think it has not been 
given enough attention (never appeared in bold in the vision 
documents), probably until now.

So what if, we just forget about @safe, @nogc, and stuff like 
that for while, do a feature freeze and try our best to fix all 
the bugs, and rough corners?