Remember the Vasa! by Bjarne Stroustrup

[12345swordy]

On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 01:46:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> A cautionary tale we should all keep in mind.
>
> http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/p0977r0.pdf
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8mq10v/bjarne_stroustroup_remeber_the_vasa_critique_of/
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17172057

No doubt that all this complexity is partially due to having a 
religious like zeal when it comes to preserving backwards 
compatibility.

I mean create a new official file extension, so that it can make 
much needed breaking changes on it.

For all the faults that D has, it is not afraid deprecate 
language features if it turns out to be a really bad idea.